Bent Tree Quotes

#1. It still hurt her to see their poems before her, printed in the curving Yeged-dai script, using Yegedin forms and the images so beloved of the Yegedin: the single pebble, the grasshopper at twilight, the song of a heartbroken lark sitting in a bent tree.

Yoon Ha Lee

#2. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

Octavius Winslow

#3. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.

Eddie Huang

#5. As the tree is bent, so it will grow.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Zhuangzi

#7. As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

#8. A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, How did you feel?

Stephen King

#9. What does a man possess if not for the memories left behind after he has departed?

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#10. If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

Eva Stachniak

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

Alexander Pope

#12. The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that's only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.

Emma Donoghue

#13. We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.

Sorin Cerin

#14. She sees washing lines and women squatting by a stream, and the creaking ropes of a swing beneath a big tree, and a big dog, cowering from the taunts of the village boys, and a hawk-nosed man digging a ditch, shirt plastered to his back with sweat, and a veiled woman bent over a cooking fire.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. You were the first in every way that counted.

Josh Lanyon

#16. As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

#17. But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

Rachel Cohn

#18. He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. Bent
like the branches of a tree
broken
like the pieces of my heart
cracked
like the seventeenth moon
shattered
like the glass in the window
the day we met

Kami Garcia

#20. When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#21. Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Albert Schweitzer

#22. As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

George Ade

#23. It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved.

Jodi Picoult

#24. I leaned my back against an oak Thinking it was a trusty tree. But first it bent, And then it broke And let me down as my love did me. - "The Water Is Wide," traditional folk song

Jill Barnett