Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
-
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress
— Jay Rockefeller
-
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily…
— Simon Greenleaf
-
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;…
— Erasmus Darwin
-
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —…
— Walter Cronkite
-
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by…
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
-
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been…
— John Muir
-
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever…
— John Muir
-
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
— Winston Churchill
-
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..
— Brigham Young
-
It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the…
— Gerald R. Ford
-
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
-
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,…
— Alan Watts
-
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.
— Audrey Meadows
-
I think branching out is cool, but I think that you have to branch out in a way that makes some sort of organic sense.…
— El-P
-
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel…
— Frederick Franck
-
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and…
— H. L. Mencken
-
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
— H. L. Mencken
-
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation…
— Vladimir Lenin
-
The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
— Thomas A. Edison
Who Wrote These Branches Quotes
617 authors contributed a total of 771 Branches Quotes, led by these top contributors: