Branches Quotes

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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. — Ezra Stiles
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with… — Homer
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of… — Greg Egan
La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If… — Unknown Author
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.… — William Butler Yeats
Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs,… — Kathleen Raine
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves… — Ming-Dao Deng
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they… — Ruskin Bond
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark… — Octavio Paz
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,… — Mary Oliver
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is… — Rudy Rucker
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. — Mahatma Gandhi
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. — Alan Watts
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin… — Marcus Aurelius
Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves,… — Radical Face
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of… — Gottfried Leibniz
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. — Ann Plato
What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch… — Keith Olbermann

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