Branches Quotes

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.