Top 91 Quotes About Twig
#1. How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?
Paul Virilio
#2. After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
Chinua Achebe
#3. As the twig is bent the bough is shaped, that was another old saying, and once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole.
Stephen King
#4. On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
Richard Attenborough
#5. I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'
Jean Craighead George
#6. I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.
Lisa Ling
#7. Little birdy fly's away from the nest on its own and comes back with one twig and you invite it back in, it will bring more!
Edna Stewart
#8. Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent and vivid, little frail things defying the dark with leaf and twig and fruit and flower.
Philip Pullman
#9. It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. Two men, one fairly dragging the other along, suddenly entered the clearing and, their eyes trained behind them, ran headlong into the owl's creation and knocked it, every maple branch and every twig of dogwood, to the ground in a splintering crash. The owl fell backward, devastated.
Colin Meloy
#14. For he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him.
Jack London
#15. As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
#16. Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?
Anne Bronte
#17. Sometimes something as simple as a phone call can snap you like a twig, break you into sharp halves so that you can't even feel your own heartbeat.
Elaine Hussey
#18. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden. - The Color of Grace
Tonia Triebwasser
#19. A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston Bachelard
#20. Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
Stephen Jay Gould
#22. It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.
Fareed Zakaria
#23. Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
#24. Like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.
Susan Juby
#25. You found anything?" Nick said.
"I found a twig.
Jennifer Rush
#26. 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
#27. I know you're frustrated, Sam, but the reality is you're in a world now where the majority of the people you run into will be able to snap you like a twig."
"My world was like that before.
Lish McBride
#28. The Royal boys are not what I expected. They don't look like rich pricks in preppy clothes. They look like terrifying thugs who can snap me like a twig.
Erin Watt
#29. In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
John C. Hawkes
#30. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Tecumseh
#31. But the boy was not cheated by her ignorance. He was not intensely interested in answers, the things themselves were enough. So he ran on, holding the leaf by its twig, or feather by its quill, and whereas his mother thought mostly of arriving, discovery kept him in a state of endless being.
Patrick White
#32. Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
Walter Savage Landor
#33. The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#35. It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch. The air was misty, and distant objects assumed a mysterious importance. Slight sounds, too, suggested infinite activities to the mind.
("A Tribute Of Souls")
Robert S. Hichens
#36. Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.
Alec Sulkin
#37. Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.
Nora Roberts
#38. I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
#39. 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
#40. Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
Chinua Achebe
#41. Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.
Stephen Jay Gould
#42. His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade of a wild cherry, infested with tent caterpillars, he began to make notes for a poem.
Saul Bellow
#43. Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.
Cormac McCarthy
#44. 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
#45. The process of unification could be equated to a tree, with each theory being a leaf on the end of a twig.
Andrew Thomas
#46. For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
Mervyn Peake
#47. Look Samuel!" She points to the couple - I noticing a twig sticking out of her hair. "Mannequins.
Nathan Reese Maher
#48. I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Robinson Jeffers
#50. Hugo reached down and plucked a spare twig from the ground and set it on the bench between them. "This," he said, "is a wall, and I will not cross it.
Courtney Milan
#51. Once I really looked at the sky, I wanted to go on looking; it seemed to draw me towards it and make me listen hard, though there was nothing to listen to, not so much as a twig was stirring.
Dodie Smith
#52. As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
George Ade
#53. 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 log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#55. One twig at a time. Like a bird making a nest.
Carol Lovekin
#56. Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair ... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash ... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.
Dawn Olivieri
#58. We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
Laurence Sterne
#59. I thought about getting out and looking for some kind of clue, until I realized how silly that was. Did I think I was Tonto, faithful Indian guide? I couldn't look at a bent twig and tell how many white men had been past in the last hour.
Jeff Lindsay
#60. Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.
Craig Stone
#61. The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned her about us, the look seemed to say.That we would hurt her, break her as you might break a twig between your fingers. But you, who thought you could not be touched - you are the one who has been broken.
Cassandra Clare
#62. That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.
Italo Calvino
#63. Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.
John Banville
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
Isaac Newton
#67. I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.
Michael Gira
#68. Think of platform building as building a fire. Each platform-building activity adds another twig or log to the fire.
Mark Coker
#69. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker
#70. I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.
John Nettles
#71. 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
#72. A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once.
Jennifer Egan
#73. As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
#74. My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.
Alice Walker
#75. As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
John C. Hawkes
#76. If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
J.D. Robb
#77. Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant.
Anne Sexton
#78. Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July.
Anita Desai
#79. In biologist Stephen Jay Gould's illustrative phrase, human beings should be seen as a "tiny, late-arising twig on life's enormously arborescent bush."14 That
Matthew Calarco
#80. Balderdash, I say, let the sword turn into an adder and the adder a salmon and the salmon a birch twig and birch twig a sword and the sword a tongue ... Let it all run together so swiftly that it cannot be separated again ...
Sjon
#81. 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
#82. When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
Publilius Syrus
#83. Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learnt to shoot without missing their mark and I have learnt to fly without perching on a twig.'
Chinua Achebe
#84. What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?
Sorin Cerin
#85. Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
Arthur Symons
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Be like the bird who,
Resting in his flight
On a twig too slight,
Feels it bend beneath him
Yet sings,
Knowing he has wings.
Victor Hugo
#89. I think I'm holding on to a limb to keep from falling into a hole, but the limb turns out to be nothing but a twig, and the hole looks like the Grand Canyon.
Cassandra King
#90. I turned and looked out the window at the snow and tried to think of the year-round sunshine in California. I tasted salt as tears streamed down my face and into my mouth. Marge said, "You can't move.
Madelon Phillips
