root quotes

But ye should say,Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job19:28.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; Daniel and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the L of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.But untoyou that fear my nameshall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDMalachi 4:1^2.

For the love of money is the root of all evil.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 6:10.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

- Geoffrey Chaucer
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.1^2.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

-Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret
  Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung

- Grace Nichols
  i is a long memoried woman, epilogue.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

- Samuel Smiles
  Self-Help, ch.1.