Able Quote by Richard Baxter

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

— George Ade

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

— Alexander Pope

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

— Virgil

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

— Laozi

A tree full of fruit always bends.

— Tasneem Hameed

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

— Samuel Rutherford

As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

— Bill O'Reilly

“Before one can cut an upright branch of a tree, you have to stand on the crooked one”

— Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“The tree is bent when it is young”

— Orhan Pamuk

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

— Danny DeVito

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein