Branches Quotes - Page 2

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

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.

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

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

Have you ever heard the earth breath?

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.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

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?

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics.

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.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.