Germs Quotations

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

Only 24 percent of men and 39 percent of women say they always wash their hands after coughing or sneezing. We have to do a better job here in stopping the spread of the germs that make us sick.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

I don't think nuclear war will get us, but germs will.

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

The poor had to deal with charity hospitals. If admitted to these institutions, they were housed and fed, but they also shared beds and germs with all the other diseased patients in their wards, and often received little medical help; if they were refused admission, they suffered and died in the streets.

Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!

I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,

Germs do not have a political party.

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

We start at a market somewhere in Guangdong Province in China. And it's packed with cages, and you'll have chickens, and you'll have ducks. You might have some other animals -- cats, dogs, turtles, snakes -- and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other.

Diseases, viruses and germs will survive the (warmer) winter. The best thing about our winter climate in this country is when we get cold winters it kills a lot of those things.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

Your hands are the most important means from which germs travel from one person to another. So it would make sense that washing your hands would be an effective strategy for protecting yourself.

You're giving the germs a free ride around the home.

I just couldn't believe there was that many germs on my hand, I had just got finished from washing my hands a couple of minutes ago so.

I really don't like germs cause I don't like to get sick, because once I get sick I get really sick and it's hard for me to get well so I try to stay healthy.

Germs are spread quite a bit through schools, ... They are transmitted from child to child; and, if one child gets sick it is likely that three of four others will.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

The science of psychiatry is now where the science of medicine was before germs were discovered.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

It's an interesting phenomenon that our behavior seems to have taken a turn for the worse when it comes to spreading germs in the office.

As a country becomes more developed, allergy rises and rises. And the notion there is that in the more-developed countries, you may be getting less exposure to infections and germs and other things that may stimulate your immune system in a direction other than allergy, ... The more your immune system is kept busy by exposure to germs and infections early in life, the less time it can devote to things like allergy.

We were pleased to find a decrease in bacteria levels. Perhaps people are becoming more aware of germs in their office and doing something about it.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate[s] the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.