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.

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

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

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.

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.

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.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

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

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

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

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.

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.