Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white…

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.

— Stephen Sondheim

“missed that point for a long time. I had spent so much of my life concentrating on the “fruit” of my own personal holiness,…

— Joanna Weaver

“The broken branch hissed loudly, and then that wind was converted into these words: "Briefly will you be answered. When the fierce soul departs…

— Dante Alighieri

O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The…

— William Carlos Williams

[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