Branches famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
-- A. R. Rahman -
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
-- Aaron Hill -
I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
-- Adam Driver -
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
-- Alexander Crum Brown -
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
-- Alma Gluck -
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 -
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
-- Ann Plato -
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
-- Anthony Marais -
I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.
-- Aries Spears -
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
-- Arthur Machen -
We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.
-- Audrey Meadows -
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
-- Bal Gangadhar Tilak -
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.
-- Benjamin Peirce -
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
-- Bernie Worrell -
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 -
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.
-- Bob Hoskins -
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
-- Bruce Lee -
There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
-- C. S. Lewis -
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
-- Charles Babbage -
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
-- Charles Dickens -
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
-- Chris Hedges -
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
-- Confucius -
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
-- Daniel Handler -
I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.
-- Daniel Tosh -
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science
-- David Hilbert -
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
-- David Jeremiah -
Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.
-- Deborah Eisenberg -
He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.
-- Elizabeth Clare Prophet -
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.
-- Ernst Haeckel -
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
-- Ernst Mayr -
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 -
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.
-- Ferdinand de Saussure -
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
-- Frank Zappa -
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.
-- George Gaylord Simpson -
She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.
-- George R. R. Martin -
We came from many roots, and we have many branches.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
-- Gilbert Highet -
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 -
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
-- Gustav Mahler -
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?
-- Gustave de Molinari -
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
-- Henry Mayhew -
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
-- Henry Walter Bates -
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
-- Hilda Phoebe Hudson -
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.
-- Ilana Mercer -
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.
-- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah -
The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.
-- Jacob de Jager -
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.
-- James Madison -
The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
-- James R Newman -
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.
-- James R Newman -
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress
-- Jay Rockefeller -
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
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 -
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.
-- Joan Miro -
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
-- John Adams -
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
-- John Constable -
There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.
-- John Crowley -
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
-- John Engler -
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
-- John Fletcher -
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
-- John Pople -
In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
-- John Ruskin -
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 -
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.
-- Joseph Story -
The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.
-- Julius Streicher -
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.
-- Kent V. Flannery -
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.
-- Lee Child -
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
-- Leo Durocher -
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
-- Lincoln Chafee -
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
-- Lord Acton -
I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.
-- Loren C. Dunn -
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
-- Loretta Young -
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
-- Margaret Sanger -
La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.
-- Maria Bethania -
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
-- Maria Monk -
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
-- Marie-Antoine Careme -
Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.
-- Marlen Haushofer -
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.
-- Martha Ostenso -
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
-- Martin Gardner -
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
-- Maurice Kendall -
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.
-- Max Horkheimer -
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
-- Max Lucado -
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
-- Michel Chossudovsky -
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
-- Michel Hazanavicius -
Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.
-- Mike Huckabee
