Branches Quotes · Page 6

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

— Rachel Dratch

Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

— Tim Crane

“There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order”

— Confucius

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

— Claudius Buchanan

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

— David Jeremiah

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

— Anne Sexton

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

— Rumi

Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use…

— John Engler

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex…

— Tristan Perich

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…

— Henry Walter Bates

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and…

— Ann Brashares

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

— Simone Weil

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

— Leo Durocher

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first…

— Alexander Kotov

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that…

— Harry Segall

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have…

— Tennessee Williams

It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating…

— John A. Macdonald

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me…

— Coco Chanel

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

— George Gissing

But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal…

— Helen Thomas

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities…

— William Z. Foster

I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could…

— Jonathan Kellerman

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like…

— John Muir

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with…

— Cyril Connolly

More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it…

— Patrice Pavis

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in…

— John Ruskin

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the…

— Ziggy Marley

Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood…

— Jack London

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because…

— James Madison

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

— Ambrose Bierce

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

— Julius Streicher

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

— Italo Calvino

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

— Pete Carroll

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

— King James I

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

— Anthony Marais

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

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

— Vinoba Bhave