Top 7 Olive Branches Quotes

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

Poetry, Burning, Olive Branches

Song: Dance Me To The End Of Love, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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

Don Williams

Hatred, Olive Branches, Fists

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

Leonard Cohen

Olive Branches, Olives, Dove

Song: Dance Me To The End Of Love, Album: Various Positions, 1984

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Steven Levitt

Olive Branches, Information, Olives

There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

Debra Granik

Encounters, Olive Branches, Able

"Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.

Alexander Hamilton

War, Choices, Olive Branches

Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett, Jacob Ernest Cooke (1969). “Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor”