Twig Quotes

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

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.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

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

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

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.

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.