Branch Quotes
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Banking is a branch of the information business.
Walter Wriston -
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
King James I
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Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
Baha'u'llah -
You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
Rachel Caine -
In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I think the Founding Fathers probably knew what they were doing in setting up the government to have a healthy tension between the executive branch and the legislative branch.
Gina Raimondo -
As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
Michael Faraday -
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
John Maynard Keynes
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She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.
Adam Foulds -
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
Gertrude Atherton -
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
Plato -
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
Dante Alighieri -
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.
Charles Chiniquy
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
Isaac Newton -
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
Blaise Pascal -
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.
David Ignatow -
The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Nikolai Lobachevsky -
Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.
William Fogg Osgood