The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the…

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

— Veronica Wolff

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

— Anonymous

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an…

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Vine Deloria Jr

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

— Alexander Bickel

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

— John Burroughs

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?…

— George Gissing

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in…

— William Mountford

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.…

— Orrin Hatch

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson