Branches Quotes - Page 14

• Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Growing Up, Law

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.117

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

  Beryl Markham

  Change, Different, Shapes

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.217, Open Road Media

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• Live in your roots, not in your branches.

  Nancy Willard

  Roots, Superficiality

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

  Eric Holder

  Communication, Nsa, Secret

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Key Quotes About the N.S.A. and Americans' Phone Records" by Alex Gangitano and Amelia Schonbek, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Tree, May

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

  America Ferrera

  Grandma, Sleep, Acting

  "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.

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• Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

  Pete Carroll

  Infinite, Parallel Universe, Parallels

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• 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, Autumn, Shade

  George Arnold, “October”

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• I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.

  Jane Goodall

  Roots, Tree, Skins

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• the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Mean, Creating

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

  Aaron Hill

  Evil, Tree, Malice

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• If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Psychology, Prejudice

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Real, Heart, Creativity

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• The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste
  Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,
  Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste,
  As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

  Jones Very

  Rain, Fall, Roots

  Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.

  Ben Salmon

  Brother, Art, Father

  "Letter To President Wilson" by Ben Salmon, June 5, 1917.

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• I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

  Susan Straight

  Freedom, Heart, Singing

  Susan Straight (2008). “A Million Nightingales”, p.285, Anchor

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• There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

  Debra Granik

  Encounters, Olive Branches, Able

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

  Zachary Levi

  Character, Careers, Acting

  "5 Questions with Alexis Bledel & Zachary Levi". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Daughter, Reading, Writing

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• Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

  Martha Ostenso

  Autumn, Here And There, Congress

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• We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, War, Gambling

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.367

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• In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
  [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

  Ovid

  War, Use, Olive Branches

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• Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

  George Herbert

  Tree

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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