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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. -- John C. Hawkes
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. -- John C. Hawkes
As the twig is bent the tree inclines. -- Virgil
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. -- Tecumseh
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. -- Alexander Pope
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. -- Alexander Pope
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. -- Alice Walker
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. -- Kathe Kollwitz
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
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
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
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
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
Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.' -- George Will
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
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
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
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. -- Alexander Pope
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. -- George Ade
Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig. -- Alec Sulkin
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig. -- Publilius Syrus
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it. -- Henry B. Eyring
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. -- James Russell Lowell
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. -- Chinua Achebe
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. -- Stephen Jay Gould
It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig. -- Fareed Zakaria
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. -- Mervyn Peake
Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig. -- Chinua Achebe
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant. -- Anne Sexton
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
On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig. -- Richard Attenborough
The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically. -- Jennifer Aniston
Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins. -- John Banville
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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