Oak Quotes

201 quotes by 169 authors

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
Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds. — Rob Brezsny
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
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
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang. — H. Rider Haggard
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
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
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
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
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
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
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
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
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
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating â€” real in a generation of triflers â€” true amongst a multitude of… — William Morley Punshon
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
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
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

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