Oak Quotes

201 quotes by 179 authors

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and… — James Allen
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree,… — Zeppo Marx
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about… — Hal Borland
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music… — Henry David Thoreau
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! — T. Harv Eker
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once… — David Brooks
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's… — James Thayer
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,… — Edwin Markham
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a… — Thomas Paine
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That… — Marianne Williamson
Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin
I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody,… — Louis C. K.
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most… — Noel Coward

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