Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or words:
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.”
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940)