Quotes about Branches

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. Votes: 4

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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? Votes: 4

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. Votes: 3

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit Votes: 3

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. Votes: 3

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still. Votes: 3

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Votes: 3

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. Votes: 3

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved. Votes: 1

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Votes: 1

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky! Votes: 1

Your brain is a forest,And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch,Snaps jumps between the leaves. Votes: 1

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. Votes: 1

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. Votes: 1

Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired, Votes: 1

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I feed the branches of the people. Votes: 0

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins Votes: 0

All religions are branches of one big tree. Votes: 0

Live in your roots, not in your branches. Votes: 0

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches. Votes: 0

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers. Votes: 0

We came from many roots, and we have many branches. Votes: 0

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches. Votes: 0

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees. Votes: 0

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. Votes: 0

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. Votes: 0

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. Votes: 0

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. Votes: 0

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom. Votes: 0

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. Votes: 0

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful. Votes: 0

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes. Votes: 0

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them. Votes: 0

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower Votes: 0

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. Votes: 0

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. Votes: 0

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. Votes: 0

Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles. Votes: 0

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. Votes: 0

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. Votes: 0

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. Votes: 0

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral Votes: 0

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. Votes: 0

As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . Votes: 0

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. Votes: 0

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree. Votes: 0

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. Votes: 0

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. Votes: 0

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. Votes: 0

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. Votes: 0

As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. Votes: 0

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches. Votes: 0

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Votes: 0

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. Votes: 0

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. Votes: 0

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Votes: 0

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. Votes: 0

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. Votes: 0

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. Votes: 0

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches. Votes: 0

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down. Votes: 0

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. Votes: 0

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Votes: 0

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life. Votes: 0

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring. Votes: 0

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. Votes: 0

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change. Votes: 0

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees... Votes: 0

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. Votes: 0

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. Votes: 0

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. Votes: 0

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues. Votes: 0

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. Votes: 0

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. Votes: 0

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. Votes: 0

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured. Votes: 0

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. Votes: 0

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. Votes: 0

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. Votes: 0

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. Votes: 0

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. Votes: 0

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. Votes: 0

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Votes: 0

Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others. Votes: 0

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. Votes: 0

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas! Votes: 0

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow. Votes: 0

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. Votes: 0

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. Votes: 0

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. Votes: 0

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. Votes: 0

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. Votes: 0

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively. Votes: 0

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. Votes: 0

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. Votes: 0

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths. Votes: 0

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created. Votes: 0

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light"¦ I just want to be pure. Votes: 0

it's like swimming upstream. Or "¦ falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall. Votes: 0

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents. Votes: 0

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves! Votes: 0

autumn The cheerful sundial; it falls in the shadow of thy leaves. there where your branches brace themselves against the gate of heaven Votes: 0

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there. Votes: 0

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. Votes: 0

Autumn The cheerful sundial it falls in the shadow of thy leaves there where your branches brace themselves against the gate of heaven Votes: 0

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. Votes: 0

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. Votes: 0

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. Votes: 0

Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees. Votes: 0

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. Votes: 0

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it. Votes: 0

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one. Votes: 0

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. Votes: 0

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough. Votes: 0

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.. Votes: 0

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.. Votes: 0

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head. Votes: 0

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. Votes: 0

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. Votes: 0

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art. Votes: 0

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . Votes: 0

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? Votes: 0

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. Votes: 0

. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout. Votes: 0

Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. Votes: 0

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency. Votes: 0

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that. Votes: 0

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. Votes: 0

The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable. Votes: 0

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk. Votes: 0

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. Votes: 0

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 light. Votes: 0

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should simply not be without it. Votes: 0

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. Votes: 0

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches. Votes: 0

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 the branches Votes: 0

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. Votes: 0

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. Votes: 0

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments. Votes: 0

In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. Votes: 0

A slight breeze cooled the Hawaiian spring air, swaying the branches of palm trees, which cast black silhouettes against the purple and orange colors of the twilight sky. Votes: 0

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens. Votes: 0

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science Votes: 0

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard. Votes: 0

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. Votes: 0

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 near the Way. Votes: 0

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. Votes: 0

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. Votes: 0

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. Votes: 0

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. Votes: 0

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body. Votes: 0

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. Votes: 0

Today you are only a branch of a tree,tomorrow you gonna be tree yourself,so prepare yourself today so strong,that tomorrow you can hold the branches . Votes: 0

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground. Votes: 0

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. Votes: 0

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. Votes: 0

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. Votes: 0

Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis ... . Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ... . Votes: 0

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches. Votes: 0

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system. Votes: 0

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power, Votes: 0

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do. Votes: 0

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system Votes: 0

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. Votes: 0

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all important. Votes: 0

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science. Votes: 0

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two. Votes: 0

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good. Votes: 0

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches. Votes: 0

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met Votes: 0

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. ("A Story About The Most Important Thing") Votes: 0

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. Votes: 0

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 Votes: 0

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two. Votes: 0

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. Votes: 0

I feel myself withering away. The leafs of a soul fall and fall...naked branches left behind. I look up at the sky, yield and let my tears come down. Votes: 0

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair. Votes: 0

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power. Votes: 0

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep. Votes: 0

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. Votes: 0

Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future. Votes: 0

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. Votes: 0

Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making. Votes: 0

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. Votes: 0

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration. Votes: 0

Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land Votes: 0

Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think. Votes: 0

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence. Votes: 0

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. Votes: 0

In pitch dark I go walkin' in your landscape Broken branches trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen Votes: 0

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown. Votes: 0

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress. Votes: 0

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming. Votes: 0

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. Votes: 0

There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction. Votes: 0

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 against the sky with branches brown and bare. Votes: 0

Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance. Votes: 0

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best. Votes: 0

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. Votes: 0

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. Votes: 0

A sloth once whispered in my ear and told me that when he is clinging to branches he closes his eyes and imagines that he's still a baby holding on to his mama. Votes: 0

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science. Votes: 0

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 through the garden, you are but an acolyte. Votes: 0

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. Votes: 0

The wind is a natural way to loosen and release dead leaves and branches, just as emotional and life-situation storms are opportunities for humans to release 'deadwood' and anything needing to be swept away. Votes: 0

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution. Votes: 0

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution. Votes: 0

Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both. Votes: 0

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion. Votes: 0

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest. Votes: 0

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation. Votes: 0

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands. Votes: 0

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge. Votes: 0

That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question. Votes: 0

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation. Votes: 0

This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth. Votes: 0

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares. Votes: 0

O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind. Votes: 0

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist. Votes: 0

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do. Votes: 0

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness. Votes: 0

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power. Votes: 0

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. Votes: 0

In the American constitutional system of three different branches, conflict - and I mean that peaceful, vigorous debate - it's a feature of our system, not a bug. We need less all-or - winner-take-all politics. Votes: 0

I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring. Votes: 0

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ... Votes: 0

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz. Votes: 0