Germs Quotes
151 quotes by 131 authors
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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
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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
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
— John Steinbeck
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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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
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Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
— Frantz Fanon
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you…
— Jodi Picoult
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Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,…
— Thomas Merton
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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most…
— Vera Nazarian
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..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that…
— David Sedaris
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Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.
— Daniel Handler
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Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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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
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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
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For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous…
— Boris Pasternak
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