Germ Quotes

101 Germ quotes by 83 unique authors

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 ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. 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 ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’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. — Unknown Author
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
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to… — Albert Einstein
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist,… — Edwin Conklin
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on… — Roger Wicker
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater… — G. Stanley Hall
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts.… — Christian Lous Lange

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