Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is proper and what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.”
—Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980)