Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches. — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch… — George Allen Copy Share Image
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn.… — Eddie Montgomery Copy Share Image
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than… — Jacob de Jager Copy Share Image
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image