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Germ of endearment
— E. Nesbit
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
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.
— Tom Verlaine
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
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
— Malcolm Cowley
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,
— Claude Bernard
You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.
— Ainslie Hogarth
The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.
— Gouverneur Morris
Everything that lives, it seems, must play host to the germ of its own dissolution.
— Michael Pollan
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
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
— Gaston Bachelard
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up ... so the next stage is hard work
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
— Nathanael West
I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.
— Sybil Thorndike
A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage ... true success follows every right step.
— Orison Swett Marden
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
— Sophie Swetchine
When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.
— John R. Erickson
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
— Barry Marshall
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
— Berthold Auerbach
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
— Hans Selye
The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your will power.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.
— Paul Valery
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
The germ of creation lies in violence.
— Rudolfo Anaya
Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out?
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.
— Reza Negarestani
Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.
— Yoshijiro Umezu
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.
— Ken Livingstone
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
I began to formulate a new law describing the relationship of protection to despondency: A sad soul can kill you quicker--far quicker--than a germ.
— John Steinbeck
Suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
— Stephen King
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
— Pearl S. Buck
There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
— Leigh Newman
Perhaps a germ of love was springing in their hearts so pure that it might blossom in Paradise, since it could not be matured on earth;
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.
— Leo Errera
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
— John Steinbeck
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
— Charles Caleb Colton
the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.
— Philip Yancey