Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or roots:
“Rosencrantz. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
Hamlet. Compounded it with dust, whereto ‘tis kin.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The roots of the grass strain,
Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—
And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)