Twigs Quotes

61 Twigs quotes by 57 unique authors

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. — Alexander Pope
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
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
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too… — Marianne Boruch
Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost… — Stephanie Mills
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
Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We… — William Allingham
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that… — Carl Jung
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
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and… — Steven Wright
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
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
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

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