It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come… Bare twigs in Autumn are signs… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants.… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree,… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you… — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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