Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“The dead being the majority it is a natural thing that we should have more friends among these than among the living.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The roots of the grass strain,
Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—
And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)