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)

“History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)