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)

“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)