Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
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It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees...
— Andrew of Crete
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Childhood is a branch of cartography.
— Michael Chabon
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect…
— Ziggy Marley
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Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the…
— Herman Bavinck
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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
— Baltasar Gracian
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....…
— James Russell Lowell
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Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there…
— Hal Borland
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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it…
— Charles Dickens
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
— Dante Alighieri
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Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.
— Rajneesh
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense…
— Thomas Huxley
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
— Andre Gide
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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general…
— Karl Marx
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out,…
— Gilbert Highet
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If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards…
— Sidney Lanier
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
— Ivan Turgenev
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