(178 quotes found)
“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends.”
Chu Hsi
“Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .”
Hans Christian Andersen
“A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it”
Chinese Proverbs
“Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live”
William Shakespeare
“How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch”
Andre Gide
“A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.”
William Congreve
“I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery
“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.”
Patrick Dougherty
“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”
William Law
“Hold out the olive branch”
Proverb
