Chance Quote by Phillips Brooks

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for…

— Phillips Brooks

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal…

— Bob Goodlatte

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree…

— Henry Chorley

“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.”

— Panache Desai

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

— Carl Sagan

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no…

— George Orwell

I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

— Roger Housden

The oak has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

— Hope Jahren

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

— Peter Marshall

“When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

— Peter Marshall

“A tree once saved my life. A posse was going to hang me, but this wise old oak would not let them. As a…

— Jarod Kintz