Branches Quotes

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Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins — William James
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does… — Khalil Gibran
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart… — George William Curtis
Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people,… — Chris Christie
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. — Plato
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. — Publilius Syrus
There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the… — Brunonia Barry
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. — Charles Dickens
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to… — James Madison
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. — George Washington
Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search,… — Bill Gates
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. — Chris Hedges
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated… — Carroll Quigley
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a… — George Gaylord Simpson
Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream… — Paulo Coelho
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated… — Isaac Newton
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger… — Russell Banks

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