Oak Quotes

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.
Voltaire

Father, Child, Sit

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Dreams, Time, Greatest

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Mind

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

Today, Yesterday, Ground

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

Silence, Whole, Fall

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music, Rocks, Bend

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

Hard, Begin, Creating

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
John Motson

Change, Direction, Seaman

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert

Grow, Storms, Roots

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. Tell them what makes this one different.
Neil Gaiman

Different, Tell, Makes

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
Clive Anderson

Children, Difficult, Idea

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

Love, Time, Rich

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. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.
Bob Goodlatte

Long, America, Tree

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
Leonard Boswell

Success, Business, Important

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
Philip Stanhope

Great, Power, Young

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.
David Jones

Down, State, Ocean

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Allan Cunningham

Sea, While, Heritage

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