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 (19021983)
“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallowthe easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots dont reach ground waterwill dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think youre beginning to live for a single aimfor self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truthswhen all youre really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)