Branch Quotes

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. View quote
Yasser Arafat
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. View quote
Lyn Nofziger
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. View quote
Maria Monk
I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. (Mahmoud Abbas)
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. View quote
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police, not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. View quote
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments? View quote
John Constable
The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion. View quote
Wesley Clark
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. View quote
Robert Jordan
Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Finally, learn something about the history of science, or at a minimum the history of your own branch of science. The least important reason for this is that the history may actually be of some use to you in your own scientific work. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. (Sri Aurobindo)
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. View quote
William Irwin Thompson
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards ... and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. View quote
Christina Rossetti