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It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be. — Phillips Brooks

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too. — Thomas Hardy

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
— David Icke

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. — Jim Crace

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? — Edward Richards

One of these days, Leo, you're going to end up in a crazy-ass threesome, and I'm going to laugh. I'm going to sit back and laugh. — Sophie Oak

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up. — David McGee

Our destinies are intertwined
like the stems of ivy on an oak tree. — Chris Tinniswood

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. — Edward Abbey

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star. — Dennis Merzel

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Did not. My stubbornness doesn't even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist. — Sophie Oak

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always — Thomas Hardy

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart — Sappho

In her time in the human city, she'd noticed the police often had that stance, as if making themselves oak-like would deter wrongdoers. — India Drummond

An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor. The — Carl Sagan

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak — Thomas Hardy

bigger than a closet, empty except for an old oak door all bound — Patrick Rothfuss

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner

Paddles and floggers and whips, oh my! - Location 3816 — Sophie Oak

Not every oak has to be gnarled. — William Zinsser

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug. — Robin R. Murphy

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. — James Russell Lowell

I'm a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill? — Sophie Oak

A man's worth isn't in how many women he's had. It's in how he loves the right one. — Sophie Oak

So it's all good to go. Pound away, man! — Sophie Oak

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. — Alain Ducasse

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both. — George R R Martin

An acorn does not see itself as a seed, but as an oak tree. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. — George Herbert

The door banged open, letting in a raucous flood of the Oak Ridge Boys. — Stephen King

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! — Emily Bronte

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! — Idries Shah

An oak is no respecter of persons. — Aldo Leopold

Unless the prince knows how to cull an oak or carve from ash, I'm not interested. I don't like pampered boys. — Sarah Dalton

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

Soul of fibre and heart of oak. — Miguel De Cervantes

The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm. — John Muir

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan

Sunrise over the mountain-forest was gorgeous - Aurora brushing out her golden tresses with a comb of dark-needled pine and bare-limbed oak. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak. — Henry David Thoreau

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. — Walter Scott

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly. — Rae Foley

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. — Carl Jung

Blood, I've discovered, is pretty meaningless in the face of real love. — Sophie Oak

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. — Rudyard Kipling

The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak. — Anthony Doerr

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

Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak. — Susan Lendroth

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If you're an oak
you don't pretend
you are a flower — Matsuo Basho

You said you were bad for me."
"I am, but I'm starting to wonder if you might be good for me. — Sophie Oak

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle

You look different now. Like a proper little girl."
"I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns."
"Nice, though. A nice oak tree. — George R R Martin

He smelled like oak and grass and wood fires.He Smelled like memories. Like years and years of memories. — Amy Plum

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. — Neil Gaiman

As soon as I turned toward the steps, my vision filled with the magnificence of the large oak tree. And there, rocking from its branch, was the swing. — Rebecca Donovan

That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect. — Sophie Oak

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ... — Hester Lynch Piozzi

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; — Willard Mullin

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you. — Mark Brown

George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move. — Angelo Dundee

If that's what it takes". Jack had the confidence of a man who knew he had all the exits guarded. "Location 1044 — Sophie Oak

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! — T. Harv Eker

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

Mark's favorite tree, he says, happened in ohio. 'It was a oak. Which I climbed up it. — Adam Hammer

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. — Henry David Thoreau

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. — Thor Heyerdahl

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. — Thomas Hardy

When you think about it, I really should be punished. I think a figging is the only way to go. — Sophie Oak

The soul and heart are intertwined like the vine is to the oak. — Emilie Petersen

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies

Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz

Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself. — Shannon Hale

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone! — Henry Chorley

He was still as an oak trunk, silent as a candle. — Charlie N. Holmberg

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

Ailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of oak and iron. — Alexandre Dumas

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. — Patience Strong

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. — Victor Hugo

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone

The wedding ring she's wearing is collar enough," Jack bit out. "I know. I put it on her finger. You can see that fucking diamond from space. — Sophie Oak

Very well, said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever. — Thomas Hardy

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

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

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break. — Thomas Hardy

Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He — Dean Koontz

The oak ... has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm . — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The giant oak tree of a story, started with a small acorn of a thought.
-T.A. Cline — T.A. Cline

It's just a little guy-liner, — Sophie Oak

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell. — George R R Martin

I passed a group of theater students or hippies (sometimes it's hard to tell) sitting in a circle under an oak tree. — Ellie Alexander