Germ Quotes

101 quotes by 89 authors

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand… — Henry James
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — David Stoddart
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance. — Hans Selye
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves,… — Gaston Bachelard
The germ of creation lies in violence. — Rudolfo Anaya
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to… — Thomas Jefferson
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis… — George Mikes
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. — Malcolm Cowley
It is often said that â€˜the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginningâ€™. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained… — Victor Serge
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. — Sophie Swetchine
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the… — Malcolm Forbes
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious… — Ernestine Rose
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always… — Adolf Hitler
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing, — Claude Bernard
If the â€˜germ theory of diseaseâ€™ were correct, thereâ€™d be no one living to believe it. — B. J. Palmer
I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us. — Sybil Thorndike
Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,… — Samuel Reshevsky
Every victory contains the germ of future defeat. — Carl Jung
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a… — Jeffrey Smart
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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