A Quote by James Russell Lowell

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Russell Lowell

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Deep Inch Pearl Poorest Tree Twig

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

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

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Alexander Pope

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

George Ade

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Publilius Syrus

The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Ronald Kessler

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

Alexander Pope

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Alexander Pope

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

Tim Fulford

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

Muhammad Yunus

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

Stephen Jay Gould

My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

Suzanne Collins

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.