Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“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)