Twig Quotations

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

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.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

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.'

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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.

Jan Case, our store manager, she's been here longer than I have. She's been here since 1968. Twig Canfield has been here now for 12 or 13 years.

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Twig was successful financially, but what good is it if you don't have time to plant tomatoes or sit on a garden bench? People would say you're so fortunate to have a beautiful yard, but we didn't get to enjoy it.

What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?

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.

A twig is bent while it is green.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Thirty years ago, on a lark, my dad took a seed from a grapefruit and planted it. I remember seeing it, a little twig sticking out of the ground. Amazingly, it grew. It's tall and huge now. It's turned into a monster.

It's no wonder this community is as fragile as it is and is able to break like a twig under the unsteady hand of the incumbent.

It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing and leaves this mark. It's a characteristic of a lot of oranges you never see.

Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined