Famous quotes containing the words vowel, stem and/or verb:
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.”
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)