Oak Quotes
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Oak Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree. — Chris Tinniswood
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
— Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
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
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
The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.
— Rae Foley
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 oakyou 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
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
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
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
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 learnto walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz
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
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
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
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
