Top 1200 Roots And Branches Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land

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

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

I'm not an R&B singer, I'm a singer. I can sing any music that makes me feel inspired whether it's Country, a little bit of Rock and roll but within my roots as well. I'm not going too far with it, but it'll be within my roots. I feel like trying a different way to express my music because so many people have already taken from what I've done in the past and it kind of makes me not want to ever do anything that I've done before.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.

Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

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

Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.

Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

At Bank of America, customers shunned a product that offered fee-free checking without access to branches.

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

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

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.