Germs Quotes

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

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 find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

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 itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

Germs do not have a political party.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

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 powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

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 living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.