Oak tree Quote by Jimmy Cliff

“Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a grown and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone.”

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If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

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I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.

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I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

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Look at the waterfall! See how the shadow scroll. If you belive me, we'll stay together.

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“I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than to live life as a puppet or a slave”

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I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

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My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

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I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become…

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I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but…

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Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

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I need you everyday and we'll stay this way. The same ol'place we found It's ours forever.

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Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while…

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You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

Michael Portillo

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“Well, make up your mind. I don’t have all night.” Fidelia set her beer on the porch and removed a set of keys from her skirt pocket. She fumbled with the key, trying to release the trigger lock on her pistol. “Don’t do that,” Heather warned her. “You’ve had too much to drink.” Fidelia snorted. “I’m not drunk. I’m in…

Kerrelyn Sparks

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak…

Glenn Turner

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“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger,…

Anonymous

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“Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o’er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life…

Charles Dickens

“Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the vast negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other life-form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life-form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it. Have you ever…

Eckhart Tolle

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

Rob Brezsny

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“They came across more ragged men resting in the shade of an oak tree. These soldiers all wore blue uniforms. Again,”

Mary Pope Osborne

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

Steven J Lawson

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“As we actually taste the flavor of what he's teaching, we begin to see that it's not proverbs for daily living, or ways of being virtuous. He's proposing a total meltdown and recasting of human consciousness, bursting through the tiny acorn-selfhood that we arrived on the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us…

Cynthia Bourgeault