Oak Quotes

201 quotes by 179 authors

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground. — Rosa Parks
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are… — Wendell Phillips
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a… — Christopher McDougall
I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for… — A A Milne
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single… — Andrew Marvell
For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak… — Herman Melville
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak… — Jack Canfield
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden… — B. C. Forbes
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what… — James Turrell
Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The… — Danny Hillis
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another… — Shirley Ann Grau
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.… — Jean Plaidy
And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree… — Glenn Turner
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the… — Richard Louv
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft

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