Twigs Quotes
61 quotes by 57 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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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
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Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
— Henry B. Eyring
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O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs…
— William Carlos Williams
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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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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted…
— Denise Levertov
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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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Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very…
— Romain Rolland
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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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For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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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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