Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
    —Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

    “The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
    Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
    Through living roots awaken in my head.
    But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)