Quotes About Germs

#1. Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Thomas Merton

#2. Germs contagious, contagious alert!
But Edwart and Purell are stronger than dirt!

The Harvard Lampoon

#3. Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

Stephen King

#4. It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Hosea Ballou

#5. Where germs go?"
"Sunrise," I said. "Poof."
Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?"
"The tiny capes are a dead giveaway.

Jim Butcher

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

Lucretius

#7. New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9 percent of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1 percent? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, "Dude, do not mess with Lysol"?

Bill Maher

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

Spiro T. Agnew

#9. I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

#10. The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

Charles Darwin

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

George Vecsey

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

Dionne Warwick

#13. 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.

Octavia Spencer

#14. By the end of a short walk, the septic tip of a cane probably collects enough germs to destroy a small city.

Charles Willeford

#15. Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs' vital organs the wrong color.

Sam Kean

#16. I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual ... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch something on my birthday. I don't want it to be from the cake. If you know what I'm saying ...

Craig Ferguson

#17. Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.

Lea Michele

#18. I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.

Cecelia Ahern

#19. It bugged me that the cover bedding was seldom washed, like slapping on a set of sheets made up for a bedspread that contained more germs per inch than the inside of a frat boy's toilet.

Cheryl Bradshaw

#20. 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.

Joseph Joubert

#21. 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.

Smith Wigglesworth

#22. Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs.

Ray Dacolias

#23. 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.

Nicole Richie

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

E. Cheraskin

#25. Zeke? Figures." She made a big deal about wiping her hands on her jeans. "Keep your germs to yourself. I have no idea where that tongue has been.

Lea Barrymire

#26. 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.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

#27. It is remarkable to think that we have had electric lights and telephones for about as long as we have known that germs kill people.

Bill Bryson

#28. 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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#29. When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.

Friedrich Schiller

#30. 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.

Chogyam Trungpa

#31. My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Orson Scott Card

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

Wilfred Owen

#33. It is generally accepted that harm from doctors - not including risks from hospital germs - accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#34. Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other.

Victor Hugo

#35. If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get into your body, unless it is nice and acidic, they can't grow and multiply and make you sick - or kill you.

Robert O. Young

#36. Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

Max Muller

#37. What was it the doctor had said? That he was the best breeding ground imaginable for germs? One glance at the legs of the trousers he was wearing made him feel like the original factory in which germs had been invented.

Gene Porter

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

Herman Melville

#39. The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

H.G.Wells

#40. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.

Charlotte Bronte

#41. So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way
we caught it like germs.

Margaret Atwood

#42. I grabbed some sani-wipes from Tracy and cleaned off my hands as best I could, and then drizzled whiskey over them. If it didn't kill the germs, at least it would get them drunk enough to be cooperative.

Mark Tufo

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

Lemony Snicket

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

Ellen DeGeneres

#45. 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

David Sedaris

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

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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

Malcolm Rogers

#48. N95 respirator mask - Looks like a white beak over your nose and mouth. (1) Double straps adjust to your head size, (2) stops germs and dust from getting in, (3) perfect for allergy protection while

Lenore Look

#49. Useful, but not one of the star players A good reliable understudy, if you like. It is a good one to use to give some of the A listers a day off to confuse the germs and inflammation a bit.

Elizabeth Ashley

#50. It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

Kathy Lette

#51. People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than highly evolved bacteria, leeches on a rotting ball of clay. It's depressing, I know.

Mike Duran

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

Orison Swett Marden

#53. If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

Daniel Smith

#54. Faith is an antibiotic against germs of worries with positive side effects.

Hira

#55. 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?

Jared Diamond

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

John R. Erickson

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

Henry Rollins

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

T.H. White

#59. No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

Sam Kean

#60. It's good Netiquette to sanitize mobile devices, smartphones & tablets. They carry a lot of germs.

David Chiles

#61. 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.

John Hodgman

#62. Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#63. 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.

Joseph Pilates

#64. My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about.

Joyce Maynard

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

Frantz Fanon

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

#67. Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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

Louis Pasteur

#69. 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Laurie Garrett

#70. When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.

Michael Gira

#71. After depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is the other.

Victor Hugo

#72. Spirit is the source of life. In growth, reside germs of happiness. So always take action for spiritual growth for eternal happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#73. It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people's experiences. Often one has to make do with seeds; the germs of what might have been, had one's life been different.

Virginia Woolf

#74. I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

James E. Talmage

#76. The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.

Colin Wilson

#77. Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.

Criss Jami

#78. 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.

Laura Wade

#79. And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Wendell Berry

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

Frances Harper

#81. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

A. J. Jacobs

#82. 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.

Adolf Hitler

#83. Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

David Hilbert

#85. Her fierce and fearful friend
who loved country music and cherry Pop Tarts and singing in public and the color pink, who was terrified of germs and dogs and ladders.

Lauren Oliver

#86. For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold. And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

Kurt Vonnegut

#87. 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.

Buzz Aldrin

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

Victor Hugo

#89. The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

Roman Abramovich

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

Mitch Hedberg

#92. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Joseph Joubert

#93. Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

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

Trenton Lee Stewart

#95. the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

Philip Yancey

#96. The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!

Gerald Massey

#97. But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.

Edith Wharton

#98. Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.
Giggles can spread from person to person.
So can blushing.
But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Vera Nazarian

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

James Clerk Maxwell

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

Spiro T. Agnew