A Quote by William Butler Yeats

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

William Butler Yeats

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Leaves Many Root Though

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William Butler Yeats
Irish - Poet
June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

William Butler Yeats

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

Rajneesh

We love telling stories about characters who you root for, even though they sometimes make it really hard for you to root for them and the choices they make.

Anna Boden

We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

John Green

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

John Fire Lame Deer

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Bruce Lee

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

Confucius

You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

Masashi Kishimoto

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Salman Rushdie

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Michael Connelly

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

Confucius

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.