Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard King

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

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

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're branches off the original technology fund. In the next several years, we see accelerated opportunities in those two areas.

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

I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.

Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Pete Carroll

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Gustav Mahler

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

John Pople

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Michel Hazanavicius

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: / Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Eric Burdon

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction.

Ziggy Marley

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

Sam Brownback

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Stanislaw Lem

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Steven Wright

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Robert Fortune

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.