Branches Quotes

• 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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Done
  • Said
  • Branches

• The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828)

  

  Karl Ernst von Baer
  • Science
  • Research
  • Evolution

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Grow
  • Branches
  • Antagonism

• Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

  

  Confucius
  • Care
  • Branches
  • Cultivate

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

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Tree
  • Cutting
  • Climbs

• 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”)

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Flowers
  • Weight
  • Lilac

• After making sure the babies are healthy, we take them right back where they came from and put them in substitute nests made out of a laundry basket filled with twigs and branches.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Healthy
  • Babies
  • Twigs

• One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Development
  • Forks
  • Bifurcation

• 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.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Inspiration
  • California
  • Group

• 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
  • Industry
  • Branches
  • Productions

• Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.

  

  David Wagoner
  • Tree
  • Answers
  • Stranger

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Emotional
  • Tree
  • Branches

• The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Years
  • Famous

• The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.

  

  Rumi
  • Flower
  • Withers
  • Not Smile

• It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Knowledge
  • Ethics
  • Sociology

• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  

  William Law
  • Evil
  • Tree
  • Sin

• The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Branches
  • Pruning

• 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.

  

  Sophocles
  • Resistance
  • Rivers
  • Branches

• 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
  • Tree
  • Flower
  • Produce

• 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".

  

  Nilsson
  • House
  • Realized
  • Branches

• 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.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Science
  • Branches
  • Divisions

• Live in your roots, not in your branches.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Live
  • Roots
  • Branches

• The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.

  

  Gardiner Spring
  • Character
  • Communicate
  • Attachment

• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tree
  • Prove
  • Ancient

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