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)