Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.

William Williams

Some leaves hang late, some fall before the first frost--so goes the tale of winter branches and old bones.

Robert Bloomfield

Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel. That One Great Spirit governs all. O Heaven, permit that I may lie Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave.

Andre Weil

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.

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

No changes will happen to the Macon operation for the foreseeable future. We want the branches to keep working as they are.

Robert Fortune

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

They'll have to do some work to get the branches up to snuff.

Ron Wyden

They just have great cards. They've got all three branches of government. They've got the bully pulpit.

Richard King

There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

Everybody is fine in my home, so I'm thankful for that, ... A couple tree branches and stuff, which is normal for hurricanes. They had a power outage, but nothing serious.

They want other branches and roots to flourish. I actually take this as a sign of Delta's commitment to Cincinnati over the long term. Cincinnati as a hub is not going away, and this is just tweaking it to make it more effective.

We need to get clarity about who is in charge of the government: three branches or one.

Dante Alighieri

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

Bayard Taylor

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

There has been a lot of movement of people of one sect or another into certain branches of the military or the police. We've tried, but it's hard to integrate them. But I don't see that there's any mood to integrate at this point.

Christopher Hitchens

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Collectively, Fort Wayne branches have had some of the longest transaction times in Indiana.

It was very difficult at times. The workers were forced to pull back from some roads as high winds were causing trees and branches to fall.

Harry Reid

This is a power play.... When you have all three branches of government controlled by the Republicans, you wind up with stuff like this, which is simply a misuse of power.

This means, even when our branches are not open, students can still get homework help.

Antonin Scalia

a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.

Herman Melville

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Henry Mayhew

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

Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

George W. Bush

I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment.

Courts have often been taken as branches of the government and judges viewed as civil servants who have to follow orders from superiors.

Cutting off lower branches on shrubs can open up a previously unused piece of real estate.

Trevor Wright

Customers will therefore be able to purchase $100, $200, $500 and $1000 denominations of airtime at six (6) JN Money Transfer branches in the UK. This makes it easier for Jamaicans vacationing in the UK and for those residing there, to top-up their credit while doing other transactions like sending remittances.