Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.”
—Groucho Marx (1895–1977)
“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)