Branches Quotes

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

In the one branch he most needed

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I feed the branches of the people.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]