Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or roots:
“For I ... maintain God’s existence, and that he is a most pure, and most simple corporeal spirit.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.”
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940)