Germ Quotes

101 quotes by 83 authors

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high… — Victor Hugo
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. — James Madison
I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray. — Kelly Rowland
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in… — George Saunders
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it… — Jane Smiley
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. — John Steinbeck
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. — Oscar Wilde
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the… — George Edward Woodberry
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things… — Barbara Kingsolver
And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous… — Stephen King
The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same… — Rachel Cohn
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing… — Irvin D. Yalom
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. — Stephen King
He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a… — Cormac McCarthy
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to… — Henry Miller
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will… — Bertrand Russell
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for… — Gaston Bachelard

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