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)

    “You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Man was Cadaver’s masker, the harnessing mantle,
    Windily master of man was the rotten fathom,
    My ghost in his metal neptune
    Forged in man’s mineral.
    This was the god of beginning in the intricate seawhirl,
    And my images roared and rose on heaven’s hill.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)