“The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 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
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The… — Walter Scott 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
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My home address is a small apartment in Fair Oaks, California but I'm here in Ho Chi Minh City right now staying… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung 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
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
“Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of… — Maya Angelou 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
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
We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the… — Juliet Marillier 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
The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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
When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
