Verbal Roots Beginning

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

    The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning of a real civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)