Twigs Quotes

61 quotes by 57 authors

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
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
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it. — Henry B. Eyring
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
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. — James Russell Lowell
On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig. — Richard Attenborough
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
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
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig. — Chinua Achebe
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
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
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell
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
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
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
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
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
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the oldâ€¦Have you… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
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
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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