Branch Quotes

433 quotes by 361 authors

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? — Don Williams
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of… — Joseph Campbell
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so… — Charles Darwin
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch… — Manly Hall
Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that… — Dave Kopel
The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax… — Dave Barry
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. — Max Lucado
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that… — Joe Frazier
Cookery, or the art of preparing good and wholesome food, and of preserving all sorts of alimentary substances in a state fit for human sustenance,… — Unknown Author
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of… — Avicenna
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes… — Phyllis Schlafly
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk… — Richard M. Nixon
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind… — William Faulkner
Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch… — Charles R. Swindoll
We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever.… — Hal Porter
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year… — Hal Porter

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