Oak Tree Quotes
58 Oak Tree quotes by 51 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in…
— James Lee Burke
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An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then…
— Nhat Hanh
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You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where…
— Terry Pratchett
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You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn’t you? (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
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Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there…
— Erin Hunter
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An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the…
— Shel Silverstein
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If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire…
— Sara Teasdale
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There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up in…
— Erin Hunter
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A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.
— David McGee
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The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some…
— Terry Pratchett
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You look different now. Like a proper little girl," said Gendry. "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," said Arya. "Nice,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds…
— Anthony Marra
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter,…
— E F Schumacher
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The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the…
— Marianne Williamson
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You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy [the ephemera replying…
— Hans Christian Andersen
Who Wrote These Oak Tree Quotes
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