Branches Quotes

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere ... including in branches of the U.S. government. — Sherry Morris

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. — Max Lucado

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches — Edith Wharton

The Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. — Cathy Davidson

You are like a cloud
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer

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

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love. — Federico Garcia Lorca

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. — Christopher Columbus

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. — Simone Weil

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. — Ernest Hemingway,

Until the last light faded. Until the space between the tree branches and the branches themselves became the same dark thing. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius

Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies. — Leslye Walton

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. — A.R. Rahman

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating. — Anais Nin

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches — Zora Neale Hurston

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. — Blaise Pascal

Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer. It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. — King James I

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

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

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

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. — Gore Vidal

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky in a million little pieces — John Green

When one has taken root, one puts out branches. — Jules Verne

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. — Matthew McConaughey

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. — Terence McKenna

Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. — Robert Jordan

She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass. — Carolina De Robertis

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. — David Lodge

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

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. - John 15:5 (NIV) — Shelley Hitz

As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . — J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins — William James

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. — William Law

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill

She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face. — Elena Ferrante

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral — Ulysses S. Grant

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.
Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis

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. — Jacob De Jager

Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it. — J.K. Rowling

For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. — Louis De Bernieres

The superiority ... enjoyed by nations that have ... perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a ... formidable obstacle. — Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. — Michele Bachmann

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that — Aya Kito

I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid. — Catherynne M Valente

Branches moved and shadows shifted as Lilith dug the poppet's final grave. — Georgina Anne Taylor

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. — Quentin L. Cook

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. — Rumi

My feet sink into the ground, and above me, the branches grow into one another, forming a kind of tunnel. — Veronica Roth

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

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

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should simply not be without it. — Takeda Shingen

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. — Francis Bacon

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. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. — Thomas Nagel

We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto. — Chaim Potok

Spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout. — Tom Sutcliffe

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge. — Joseph M. Juran

There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order — Confucius

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

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. — Charles Dickens

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

Branches of spiraea bowed under sleeves of blossom, and delphinium shoots nudged the soil. With the — Rachel Joyce

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau

The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them. — Mike Mullin

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. — Paul Verlaine

I feed the branches of the people. — Kanye West

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Behind me, a teddy bear was resting on the shoulder of a corpse. A lemon candle stood below the branches. The pilot's soul was in my arms. — Markus Zusak

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. — Albert Schweitzer

Trees hang their branches — Allen Ginsberg

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

Walk tall but don't bang your head on low hanging branches. — Peter James West

These branches will be my bones, I thought, and the paper will be my heart and skin, the places that feel everything. — Ally Condie

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

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

Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing. — Ally Condie

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. — Ivan Turgenev

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves? — Sinan Antoon

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. — William Stanley Jevons

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. — Gustav Mahler

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

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. — Chuck Schumer

Live in your roots, not in your branches. — Nancy Willard

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