#branches

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#branches #grow #instinct #just #must

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#feet #like #old #tree

I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#awesome #awesome responsibility #branches #confirmed #constitution

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#government #house #know #president #senate

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. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cases #checked #desired #encouraged #flow

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.' ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#branches #came #everything #houses #i

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. ↗

— James Otis

#english #essential #freedom #house #liberty

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. ↗

— Jean Genet

#black #branches #country #deep #did

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#branches #case #dramatic #each #ending

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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