Oak Quotes

201 Oak quotes by 169 unique authors

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. — George Herbert
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. — David Icke
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. — James Russell Lowell
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can… — Steven Pinker
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that… — Albert Schweitzer
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving. — Gary Vaynerchuk
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go.… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and… — William Shakespeare
If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me… — Charles M. Schulz
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about… — C.S. Lewis
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall beâ€” and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak — Thomas Hardy
I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out… — Jennifer McMahon
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the… — Peter S. Beagle
i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me,… — Bob Dylan
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. — Ian Mcewan
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf

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