Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one…
— Confucius
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I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was…
— John Flanagan
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though…
— John Muir
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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements…
— Anna Godbersen
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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Lord has blessed you with a testimony of the truth. You have felt His influence and witnessed His power. And if you continue to…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
— Saint Augustine
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on…
— Connie Willis
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Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?
— Kami Garcia
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The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the…
— Garth Stein
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is…
— Anne Bronte
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Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years…
— Mitch Albom
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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll…
— Vera Nazarian
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the…
— Anne Carson
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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor…
— John Adams
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