Top Root Quotes
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
Well, fans always root for the underdog.
Maria Sharapova
George Santayana 
Lawrence Taylor 
Jimmy Fallon 
Mortimer Adler 
Max Born 
Philip Pullman 
Samuel Smiles 
Henry Fielding 
Angela Davis 
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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt 
88% of people like this quote
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
George Washington Carver
81% of people like this quote
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
72% of people like this quote
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.
Wink Martindale
66% of people like this quote
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
65% of people like this quote
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard
62% of people like this quote
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
Janet Napolitano
61% of people like this quote
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
61% of people like this quote
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