Germs Quotes

151 quotes by 138 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
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll… — Orson Scott Card
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
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the… — W. S. Gilbert
It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a… — Kathy Lette
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
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
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
If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get… — Robert O. Young
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

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