Top 158 Germ Quotes & Sayings

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

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

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men.

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.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

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!

Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

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

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

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

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

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

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

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

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

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

I always have my anti-germ-y wipes, always.

The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

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

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

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

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

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

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.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.