Twigs Quotes

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Tecumseh

Strength, Being Strong, Break

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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 are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

George Ade

Education, Tree, Bent

George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.18, Youcanprint

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Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

David Gemmell

Simple, Tree, Branches

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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 of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

Robert Henri

Art, Roots, Tree

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Alexander Pope

Tree, Bent, Grows

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Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

Henry B. Eyring

Inspirational, Spiritual, Acting

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

Alexander Pope

Birthday, Graduation, Education

Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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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, until the last small twig has grown.

Kathe Kollwitz

Life, Achievement, Self Improvement

Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.64, Northwestern University Press

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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 it when it is a tree?

Richard Baxter

Tree, Delay, Able

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

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Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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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

Spiritual, Shapes, Obedience

Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Herman Melville

Branches, Chapters, Trunks

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275

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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 be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

Robert Zubrin

Mistake, Moon, Race

Robert Zubrin (1999). “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization”, Tarcher

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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 let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.

Melina Marchetta

Eye, Cutting, Feet

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You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.

Katsuki Sekida

Eye, Hands, Wind

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As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

R. K. Laxman

Children, Eye, Opposites

R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr

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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 without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

Martin Luther

Stars, Sleep, Caring

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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

Pigs, Looks, Weight

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Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Brother, Real

C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Martin Luther

Encouragement, Fall, Apples

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No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

Kyan Douglas

Hair, Noses, Want

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

Milos Forman

Littles, Drowning, Wells

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Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trails its wreath;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure;
But the least motion which they made,
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

Spring, Flower, Men

William Wordsworth, “Written In Early Spring”

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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 spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring, Winter, Thinking

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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