Twig Quotes
49 quotes by 43 authors
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
— Henry B. Eyring
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And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
— James Russell Lowell
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On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
— Richard Attenborough
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There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell…
— Celia Rees
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me,…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
— Chinua Achebe
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated…
— Isaac Newton
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Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep…
— Martin Luther
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
— Arthur Symons
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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you…
— Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None…
— Robert Henri
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The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend…
— Richard Baxter
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in…
— Walter Benjamin
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I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.
— Lisa Ling
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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or…
— Dean Koontz
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
— Alexander Pope
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few…
— Edward Thomas
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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
— Chinua Achebe
Who Wrote These Twig Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 49 Twig Quotes, led by these top contributors: