Branches Quotes

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

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

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

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.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

All religions are branches of one big tree.