Branches Quotes

• There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Together
  • Care
  • Rain

• 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.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • War
  • Sleep
  • Fire

• And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • World
  • Long
  • Mind

• Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Dangerous
  • Constitution

• Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Children
  • Abuse
  • Example

• I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Mind
  • Tennis
  • Numbers

• I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Psychology
  • Branches

• Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

  

  Kazuya Minekura
  • Freedom
  • Wings
  • Decided

• The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Doubt
  • Fame
  • Mathematics

• The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Individual
  • Finest
  • Judicial

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Tree
  • Branches

• 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
  • Light
  • Revolution
  • Shining

• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Children
  • Practice
  • Should

• 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.

  

  Nicole Williams
  • Alive
  • Branches
  • Cut

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

  

  Willa Cather
  • Bird
  • Fairy
  • Legends

• The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... and ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • World
  • Relation
  • Historical

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

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Science
  • Branches
  • Theories

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

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Life
  • Shape
  • Branches

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

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Democracy
  • Able
  • Scientist

• What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Events
  • Roots
  • Reform

• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Shows
  • Impulse
  • Shamanism

• For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Picture
  • Bible
  • Tree

• Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Library

• A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

  

  Russell Hornsby
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Abuse

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