OAK Quotes

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve)
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. View quote
James Allen
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. View quote
George Herbert
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. View quote
David Icke
You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn. View quote
David Zindell
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The oak... has not the efficacy of the fir, nor the cypress that of the elm. View quote
Vitruvius
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, - all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I understand the power and the alarm of words – Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away. (Vladimir Mayakovsky)
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. View quote
Joseph Beuys
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. View quote
Robert Jordan
An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble. View quote
Nhat Hanh
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness. ...they are a convenient material to use in carving. View quote
Vitruvius
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
An oak is no respecter of persons. View quote
Aldo Leopold
He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger... (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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. View quote
Dennis Merzel
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. View quote
Lionel Shriver
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. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder