Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I… — Sarah Lafleur Copy Share Image
Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
You look different now. Like a proper little girl," said Gendry. "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns,"… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant,… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
