(178 quotes found)
“Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
Wilfred Peterson
“I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.”
George W. Bush
“Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.”
William Carlos Williams
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
Charles Dickens
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
“The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.”
Christopher Columbus
“Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”
Yasser Arafat
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
Christopher Marlowe
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
