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 Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

    “I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
    Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
    And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
    Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
    And the young lie long and dream in their bed....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)