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  • A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. -- Tecumseh
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. -- Alexander Pope
  • As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. -- George Ade
  • Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. -- Alexander Pope
  • After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. -- Chinua Achebe
  • It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • 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
  • FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway. -- Chelsea Leyland
  • 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
  • Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. -- Philip Sidney
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs. -- FKA twigs
  • Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. -- Steven Wright
  • Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, 'Botanicula' creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree's last hope of survival. -- Rob Manuel
  • I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord. -- Neneh Cherry
  • Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance. -- Rob Manuel
  • I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.' -- FKA twigs
  • The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~ -- Ilsa Madden-Mills
  • Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. -- Herman Melville
  • The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs. -- Victoria Twead
  • For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders. -- Bernard Rudofsky
  • 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. -- Enoch Powell
  • Our worst can become our best if mistakes are gathered like twigs of a bird's nest, giving one true foundation, a spiritual home to build their life upon. -- Ace Antonio Hall
  • Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past. -- William Allingham
  • October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance. -- Denise Levertov
  • Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer. -- Stephanie Mills
  • O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs conspire against you! Hear hem! They hold you from behind. -- William Carlos Williams
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