Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    Now fades the lasts long streak of snow,
    Now burgeons every maze of quick
    About the flowering squares, and thick
    By ashen roots the violets blow.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)