Twig
To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
To beat with twigs.
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Twig Quotations
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
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
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Tecumseh
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
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
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
As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.
John C. Hawkes
In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
John C. Hawkes
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
Twig Translations
twig in Dutch is rank, twijg, rijs
twig in French is ramille
twig in German is Zweig
twig in Portuguese is galho
twig in Spanish is ramita
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