Germ Quotes

101 Germ quotes by 83 unique authors

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have… — Paula Radcliffe
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to… — Anita Baker
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. — Evan Esar
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any… — Abraham Lincoln
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North… — Bharati Mukherjee
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible… — Arthur Koestler
Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food… — John Muir
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until… — Emma Goldman
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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

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