Dead Roots

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:

    This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    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)