Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho Copy Share Image
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts 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
“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
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's… — Thomas Gray 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
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
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins… — Vladimir Mayakovsky 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
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
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
“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
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
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Adding two or three chunks of wood to the coals adds a great smoke flavor to meat. I prefer pecan wood, which… — Johnny Trigg Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin Copy Share Image
