Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A good word is as a good tree—
its roots are firm,
and its branches are in heaven;
it gives its produce every season
by the leave of its Lord.”
—Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)