Twig Quotes

49 Twig quotes by 41 unique authors

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only… — Robert Zubrin
Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs… — Milos Forman
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin. — Craig Stone
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch… — Martin Luther
I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me. — Sienna Miller
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. — Tecumseh
I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We… — Jostein Gaarder
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank… — Gaston Bachelard
I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake
Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every… — David Gemmell
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to… — Mark Barrowcliffe
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. — Alice Walker
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. — Virgil
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. — John C. Hawkes
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. — John C. Hawkes

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