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Tag Name "Twig" (29)

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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
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For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
Mervyn Peake
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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
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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
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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
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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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Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.
Alec Sulkin
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Alexander Pope
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Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
Anne Sexton
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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
Chinua Achebe
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November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.
Edward Thomas
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Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
Henry B. Eyring
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
Richard Attenborough
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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
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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.
Steven Pinker
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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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
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
Chinua Achebe
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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
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