Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 630 authors
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other…
— Charles Babbage
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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
— Michele Bachmann
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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's…
— Jello Biafra
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly…
— Julian Bond
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000.…
— Anthony Burgess
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
— George W. Bush
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or…
— Marc Chagall
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of…
— Kate Chopin
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from…
— Yasser Arafat
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are…
— Frederick William Robertson
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About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...…
— Michelangelo
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The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and…
— John Playfair
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and…
— Wang Wei
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every…
— Martin Luther
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Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should simply not be…
— Takeda Shingen
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