Branches Quotes

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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. — Lewis Carroll
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother… — Lisa See
There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;… — Ayn Rand
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take… — Khaled Hosseini
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. — Bertrand Russell
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.… — C.S. Lewis
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown… — Arthur Golden
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being… — Unknown Author
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. — Paul Verlaine
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. — Nick Harkaway
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty… — Wallace Stevens
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first… — Haruki Murakami
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon… — Claudia Gray
As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few… — Gustave Flaubert

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