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Tree Branch Quotes

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
- Rachel Caine

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.
- Deb Caletti

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
- Kate Chopin

We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates' faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.
- Anna Godbersen

So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.
- Cynthia Hand

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
- Daniel Handler

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.
- Khaled Hosseini

Some words hit you like a tree branch slapping you in the face. And some words rip into your flesh, leaving scars so deep, they never completely fade.
- Corrine Jackson

A spanking with a tree branch, now that's slapstick.
- Jarod Kintz

A politician's word is like a thick tree branch, and the people are all hanging on it. Well, I've got noose for you, politicians won't keep their word, but they will keep you hanging.
- Jarod Kintz

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
- Anthony Kiedis

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
- Matt Leblanc

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
- Dennis Rodman

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.
- Paul Stamets

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.
- Connie Willis

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