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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. -- Jill Lepore
Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity. -- Yoshijiro Umezu
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! -- Billy Bush
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. -- Pearl S. Buck
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. -- John Steinbeck
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. -- Jim Lehrer
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -- Oscar Wilde
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. -- Thomas Jefferson
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. -- Berthold Auerbach
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. -- David Wilmot
I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray. -- Kelly Rowland
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. -- James Madison
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Anita Baker
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. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Emma Goldman
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. -- Paula Radcliffe
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. -- Roger Wicker
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. -- David Wilkerson
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill. -- Kim Cattrall
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. -- Michael Moritz
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. -- Jane Smiley
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. -- Norman Douglas
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. -- Ernestine Rose
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius. -- George Edward Woodberry
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.' -- Lee Hall
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The germ of creation lies in violence. -- Rudolfo Anaya
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness -- Pearl S. Buck
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing, -- Claude Bernard
Every victory contains the germ of future defeat. -- Carl Jung
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. -- Gaston Bachelard
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. -- Stephen King
Toddlers are germ-warfare machines in a cute package- Debora Geary -- Debora Geary
Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything. -- Louis Pasteur
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) -- Eric Metaxas
A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick. -- John R. Erickson
An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. -- Stephen King
I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us. -- Sybil Thorndike
Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest. -- Donna Karan
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. -- Evan Esar
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ. -- Tom Verlaine
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance. -- Hans Selye
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. -- Barry Marshall
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. -- Malcolm Cowley
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. -- Orison Swett Marden
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. -- Leo Errera
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True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. -- Sophie Swetchine
The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America. -- Gouverneur Morris
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out. -- Leigh Newman
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare. -- Ken Livingstone
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television. -- Michael Apted
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. -- James Madison
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. -- Charles Kingsley
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. -- Graham Greene
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Freeman Dyson
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Kingsley Martin
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. -- Cormac McCarthy
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity. -- George Mikes
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose. -- James A. Garfield
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. -- Samuel Reshevsky
For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it. -- Ron Paul
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ. -- Mark Twain
Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it. -- Herman Gorter

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