Baltic Languages - Branches

Branches

The Baltic languages are generally thought to form a single family with two branches, Eastern and Western.

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Famous quotes containing the word branches:

    “We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Certain branches cut
    certain leaves fallen
    the grapes
    cooked and put up
    for winter”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)