Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

    The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)