To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear,…

— Bettina Skrzypczak

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the…

— Fred Brooks

I always have my anti-germ-y wipes, always.

— Wendy Williams

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well…

— Graham Swift

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

— Evan Esar

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

— Jim Lehrer

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed…

— Freeman Dyson

I'm a bit of a germ freak. I carry antibacterial and alcohol swabs with me when I travel. I don't think it's a weird…

— Mandy Moore

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

— Donna Karan

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was…

— Kim Cattrall

It's scary to think that nothing can kill that 0.01% germ.

— Zachary H

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

— Jill Lepore

Moms always have germ-x in their purse. Never fails. If they're 25 or 50 years old...

— Anonymous

“Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

— Malcolm Cowley