Branches Quotes - Page 3

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

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.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

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.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

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.

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

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