“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. — John Engler Copy Share Image
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change. — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that… — Marcus Dunstan Copy Share Image
A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to… — Russell Hornsby Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“It is often said 'money does not grow on trees'. Then why do banks have branches?” — I read it somewhere Ian Welch Copy Share Image
“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis Copy Share Image
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
