Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
“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)