Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or words:
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)