Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Gravel

Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

Such cooperation also exists between the judicial branches of the two countries, which has contributed to the growth of bilateral ties,

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.

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.

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

We've had a lot of branches falling, ... We could hear them falling on the roof.

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.

You are the tree; Your branches have blossomed forth. From the very small and subtle, You have become huge and manifest.

Tom Kelly

Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads.

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.

Sadie Jones

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

Dante Alighieri

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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.

It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.

Mark Hudson

Wind damages, such as loss of plastic greenhouse coverings, broken branches of orchards, and fallen nursery stocks were observed.

We're cutting weeds, getting branches out and carrying away debris. It'll look nice when we finish.

This could be how the first flight began?insects just jumped off branches and started gliding.

Antonin Scalia

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

If you don't have fundamental biology, all the branches are going to whither.

Bryan Sykes

If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two branches or where they come from.

In general, we'd like to know who's related to whom, and the pattern of the branches of the tree of life.

Harriet Miers

The wisdom of those who drafted our Constitution and conceived our nation as functioning with three strong and independent branches has proven truly remarkable.

But instead of a tree, we got a bush where many branches sprout close together.

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.

By midyear, we'll have in the neighborhood of 25 branches running Win 2000,

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.

In public esteem, the judges are the most highly rated of the three branches of government.

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