Top 124 Germs Quotes & Sayings

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

If you don't expose something to sunlight, microbes and germs will thrive.

Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath.

When you walk into anybody's house with footwear, you tend to bring in germs and bacteria.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

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

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

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

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

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

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

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

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

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

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

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

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.

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Germs do not have a political party.

I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.

Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

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

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

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

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

Shaking hands is a pretty good way to get yourself sick, not necessarily with Ebola, but with a million other germs that can cause colds and flu.

When you put Listerine in your mouth, it hurts. Germs do not go quietly.

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

Kids get sick in preschool. A lot. Make sure that your kids are getting all the immune boosting they can to fight the germs!

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

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.

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

..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

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

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

I didn't own a guitar when I was in the Germs. I would just borrow one from the opening band.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.

If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

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