The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin Copy Share Image
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“In the hills giant oaks Fall upon their knees You can touch parts You have no right to” — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Oaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She realized that was one of the things she liked about Green Oaks – nobody knew her. She wasn’t the quiet girl… — Catherine O'Flynn Copy Share Image
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger 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
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
High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace Copy Share Image
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale… — Henry Chorley Copy Share Image
