Branches Quotes

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Orrin Hatch

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— William Mountford

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

— George Gissing

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Byron White

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

— John Burroughs

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

— Antoine Lavoisier

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

— Alexander Bickel

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

— Vine Deloria Jr

[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely…

— Ogden Nash

I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.

— A. J. McLean

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I…

— Suzanne Collins

With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions…

— Elizabeth Warren

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

— Richard Peck

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful…

— Victor Hugo

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle;…

— James Otis

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency…

— Anonymous

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.

— Rumi