Germ Quotes

101 quotes by 89 authors

For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.… — Alan Watts
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… — James Madison
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.… — Mark Twain
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and… — Bettina Skrzypczak
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing… — Henry Ward Beecher
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)… — Thomas Jefferson
Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ...… — Cate Blanchett
If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one… — Adolf Hitler
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) — Eric Metaxas
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,… — Thomas Jefferson
A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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