Branches Quotes

• If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Imperfection, Tree

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

  Rumi

  Healing, I Hate You, Roots

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• Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Roots, Tree

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.273

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

  Confucius

  Roots, Care, Take Care

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

  Yiannis Kouros

  Roots, Tree, Stronger

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Emotional, Tree, Ifs

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• Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

  Arthur Machen

  Principles, Finals, Mystery

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The Novel of the White Powder”, p.16, Booklassic

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• You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Rain, Fall

  Ernest Hemingway, Robert E. Gajdusek (1978). “Hemingway's Paris”, Scribner Book Company

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• I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Clouds, Keys

  Anonymous, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Day With Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Have you ever heard the earth breath?

  Kate Chopin

  Clever, Earth, Spheres

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

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• Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

  Gustav Mahler

  Existence, Behinds

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• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Self

  William Law (2001). “An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

  Henri Matisse

  Tree, Intuition, Natural Instinct

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Empathy

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

  Loretta Young

  Education, Common, Academic

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• One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

  James Otis

  Men, House, Liberty

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

  Joseph Hume

  Agriculture, Giving, Protection

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• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

  Ezra Stiles

  Thinking, Law, Bills

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• Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Diaspora, Computer

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• Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Opposites, Tree

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.112

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