My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. . . . You have to have a natural curiosity for that.
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.
Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.
It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.
Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.
If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.