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

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

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Tree
  • Cutting
  • Climbs

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

  

  Confucius
  • Care
  • Branches
  • Cultivate

• 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

• 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

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

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Branches
  • Pruning

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Art
  • Science
  • Neighborhood

• Live in your roots, not in your branches.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Live
  • Roots
  • Branches

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

  

  Rumi
  • Flower
  • Withers
  • Not Smile

• Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Different
  • Language
  • Details

• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Answers
  • Branches
  • Leaf

• Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

  

  Wang Wei
  • Walking
  • Floating
  • Peaches

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