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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. -- Dennis Rodman
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. -- Matthew Fox
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. -- Maimonides
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 to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. -- John Muir
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? -- Kate Chopin
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. -- Ann Plato
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. -- Rumi
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. -- Rumi
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. -- Gore Vidal
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. -- Alma Gluck
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. -- Joseph Hume
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. -- Victor Hugo
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. -- Carroll Quigley
Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers. -- Todd Tiahrt
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. -- John Pople
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. -- James Madison
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. -- Albert Einstein
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.' -- Beth Ditto
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science. -- Andrei Sakharov
And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. -- Sibel Edmonds
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches. -- Martin Van Buren
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. -- Marc Chagall
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore. -- Larry Gates
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. -- Albert Einstein
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. -- James Stephens
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. -- Michele Bachmann
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. -- David Mamet
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. -- Ron Eglash
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. -- Nikola Tesla
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. -- Andrew Jackson
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. -- Edward Steichen
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. -- Lord Chesterfield
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. -- Steven Wright
The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. -- Mike Pence
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. -- Robert Fortune
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. -- Harold H. Greene
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. -- Ban Ki-moon
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries. -- Homaro Cantu
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. -- David Mamet
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.' -- Harry Nilsson
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference. -- Dan Phillips
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I feed the branches of the people. -- Kanye West
Live in your roots, not in your branches. -- Nancy Willard
All religions are branches of one big tree. -- George Harrison
Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins -- William James
The flower that does not smileat the branches withers. -- Rumi
Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches. -- Ogden Nash
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees. -- Pliny the Elder
Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. -- Quentin L. Cook
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. -- Audrey Meadows
We came from many roots, and we have many branches. -- Gerald R. Ford
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. -- Italo Calvino
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. -- Gustav Mahler
Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. -- Santoka Taneda
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. -- Confucius
I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom. -- Susan Straight
Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes. -- Pete Carroll
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. -- Chris Hedges
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them. -- David Jeremiah
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower -- Samuel Rutherford
Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. -- Roberto Calasso
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. -- William Weld
Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky! -- Saadi
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. -- John Keats
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. -- H. L. Mencken
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. -- Henri Poincare
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. -- Natalie Babbitt
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree. -- William Butler Yeats
As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. -- Anais Nin
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral -- Ulysses S. Grant
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. -- Ernst Mayr
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. -- Nick Harkaway
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. -- Loretta Young
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. -- Beryl Markham
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. -- William Law
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. -- Paul Verlaine
As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. -- Idries Shah
If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches. -- Vinoba Bhave
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. -- Bertrand Russell
Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. -- Ellen Hopkins
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. -- Roberto Calasso
Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves. -- Rich Shapero
It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life. -- Ricki Lake
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. -- Herman Melville
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. -- Willa Cather
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring. -- Philip Sidney
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. -- Henri Matisse
I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change. -- Sam Brownback
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees... -- Andrew of Crete
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. -- Edwin Meese
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. -- Susan Sontag
The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues. -- Sam Brownback
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. -- Lord Acton
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. -- Cesare Pavese
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured. -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. -- Chuck Schumer
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. -- Blaise Pascal
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. -- John Adams
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. -- Samuel Adams
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. -- James Otis
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. -- George Harrison
Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. -- William Stanley Jevons
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. -- Cathy Davidson
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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