We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the…

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

— Andre Gide

“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.”

— Jules Verne

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

— Jules Verne

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown…

— Alice Oswald

“What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?”

— Sorin Cerin

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

— Joseph Brodsky

I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional…

— John Engler

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

— Sarah Parish

The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other…

— Chellie Pingree

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the…

— Charles Jencks

The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and…

— Jon Huertas

No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

— Ice T

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning…

— Anonymous