Tis education forms the common mind;Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope
As a twig is bent the tree inclines. - Virgil
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. - Gaston Bachelard
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