Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
— Frank Zappa
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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count…
— Regina Brett
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The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of…
— Ayn Rand
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
— Lionel Shriver
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no…
— Robert Frost
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even…
— Khalil Gibran
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In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a…
— James Wright
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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a…
— Yann Martel
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Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,…
— Lord Dunsany
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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!…
— Victor Hugo
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were…
— Ernest Hemingway
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any…
— Arthur Golden
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Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are…
— Haruki Murakami
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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was…
— John Jakes
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off…
— C.S. Lewis
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I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart…
— Alexander Pushkin
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