Quotes with branches

  • There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
  • We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
  • What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
  • My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertrand Russell Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
    Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hader 'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • James Stephens A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Beth Ditto Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Andrei Sakharov My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Carl Bernstein The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bob Woodward Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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