Twigs Quotes

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

  Tecumseh

  Strength, Being Strong, Break

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rivers, Water, Floating

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fall, Opportunity, Weather

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• You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Past, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

  John Banville

  Morning, Light, Tree

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• 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 the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.251

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