Branches Quotes

• The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Party
  • President
  • Roles

• 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

• 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

• The stag in limpid currents with surprise Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.

  

  Ambrose Philips
  • Rise
  • Branches
  • Stag

• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • President
  • Branches

• 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

• It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.

  

  Geoff Capes
  • Problem
  • Week
  • Computer

• A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Son
  • Branches
  • Falcon

• As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • May
  • Yoga
  • Branches

• 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

• 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
  • Political
  • Government
  • Suffering

• Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

  

  William James
  • Political
  • Reason
  • Branches

• O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  

  George Arnold
  • Lying
  • Glory
  • Autumn

• The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Dangerous
  • Court

• Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Thinking
  • Color
  • Physics

• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Particular
  • Electricity
  • Thermodynamics

• Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Roots
  • Searching

• Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

  

  Karle Wilson Baker
  • Thoughts
  • Flying
  • Blind

• Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Differences
  • Failing
  • Hitting

• I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Pops

• The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Liberty
  • Individual
  • Constitution

• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

  

  Wesley Pruden
  • Important
  • Government
  • Congress

• The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Trying
  • Helping
  • Vote

• 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.

  

  Nina Totenberg
  • Power
  • System
  • Branches

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