Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
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I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've…
— Gordon Korman
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There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and…
— Jodi Picoult
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
— Mary Oliver
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Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch…
— George R. R. Martin
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There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches,…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched…
— Leila Aboulela
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That…
— Jane Hirshfield
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it…
— Ivan Turgenev
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And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the…
— John Green
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If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead,…
— Ethan Hawke
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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just…
— Alan Rickman
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Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every…
— David Gemmell
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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree…
— Deb Caletti
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Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
— Daniel Handler
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You need me, just whistle," he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. "You're…
— Kim Harrison
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Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there…
— John Bunyan
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