Oak Quotes
201 quotes by 169 authors
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Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older…
— Clive Anderson
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Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.
— Rob Brezsny
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Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day son, a man had to answer for the wicked he done. Take all the rope in Texas,…
— Toby Keith
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The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life,…
— Robin Hobb
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The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
— H. Rider Haggard
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The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the…
— James Lee
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Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed…
— William Shakespeare
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than…
— James Russell Lowell
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
— Mary Oliver
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Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round…
— Samuel Rogers
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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
— Charles Churchill
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The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For…
— John Clare
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At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I…
— Eugene Delacroix
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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
— Emily Dickinson
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Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of…
— William Morley Punshon
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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
— Bill Vaughan
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What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far…
— Paul Davies
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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like.…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Oak Quotes
169 authors contributed a total of 201 Oak Quotes, led by these top contributors: