An-eye-for-an-eye Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

“If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and…

— Mervyn Peake

“I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain.”

— Deborah Treisman

“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”

— Euripides

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there…

— Sister Helen Prejean

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

— Anonymous

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

— Alexander Pope

“What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?”

— Sorin Cerin

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

— Virgil

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…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

— Anonymous

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

— Alice Walker

I was a twig.

— Leighton Vander Esch

“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald