OAK Quotes - page 4

Grand pappy told my pappy back in my day son A man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree Round up all of them bad boys, hang them high in the street For all the people to seeThat justice is the one thing you should always find You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line When the gun smoke settles, we'll sing a victory tune And we'll all meet back at the local saloon. We'll raise up our glasses against Evil forces singing Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses. (Toby Keith)
‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long! View quote
Henry Fothergill Chorley
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! View quote
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak. View quote
William Shakespeare
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man. View quote
Owen Feltham
[ Titchener ] always seemed to me the nearest approach to genius of anyone with whom I have been closely associated.... He was competent with languages, and could ad lib in Latin when the occasion required it. If you had mushrooms, he would tell you at once how they should be cooked. If you were buying oak for a new floor, he would at once come forward with all the advantages of ash. If you were engaged to be married, he would have his certain and insistent advice about the most unexpected aspects of your problems, and if you were honeymooning, he would write to remind you, as he did me, on what day you ought to be back at work. View quote
Edwin Boring
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall. View quote
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Norman saw on English oak. On English neck a Norman yoke; Norman spoon to English dish, And England ruled as Normans wish; Blithe world in England never will be more, Till England's rid of all the four. View quote
Walter Scott
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! View quote
Emily Brontë
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating - real in a generation of triflers - true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial. (William Morley Punshon)
You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. [...] The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. [...] The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. View quote
Richard Hamming
"Fare well!" "A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution. To the discerning eye, his farm is labeled with the badge and symbol of the prairie war. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious. View quote
Robert Greene
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down. View quote
Jack Canfield
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down. View quote
Jack Canfield
Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul's agenda. View quote
James Hillman
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being. View quote
Geneen Roth
Certain parts of the forest [the forest Bas Bréau, near Barbizon ] are truly wonderful. We can't even imagine such oak trees in Montpellier. (Frédéric Bazille)
I think I will go back to mahogany [wood, as layer for his paintings], the only stable wood, together with old oak. But mahogany is so heavy. And it has another drawback, it blackens even through the primers if they are not thick enough and applied in several coats. View quote
Eugène Boudin
On the whole [the alignment of a series of stained glass windows with the interior of a villa in The Hague] I have thought about all the time... I want to focus more on the architecture of the interior in general and that should we do together [with architect Buys]... Now I was already thinking, the enormous color effect that the window will generate - and that will certainly become powerful - must be accompanied with strong colors - the hall -, otherwise the window itself will be too much isolated. For instance the staircase, could it be painted in strong colors and not [in] oak.... deep ultramarine blue or green, with a beautiful colorful carpet.... I feel I must make designs for carpets, to create in that way a beautiful unity with the stained glass as a whole. View quote
Jacoba van Heemskerck
Hark! My ears are catching corncrake's clicking, Silver moonlight shines on cobhead corn; Summer evening's blessing me, enriching, Valley's wreaths of smoky slash and burn. Neither joying I, nor grieve I, mournful; But for forest's darkness am I yearnful, Rose-gilt clouds the day's protracted ending, Windy sleeping hill o'er all extending, Fragrant twinflower, shortening, lingering shade; These the things from which my heart-song's made. Lady June-July, for you I'm singing, Great the silence of my ardent heart, Merry music make, for faith is mounting, Verdant wreath of oak eternal start. Foolish errands now I'll make no longer, Fortune blessèd hands will grasp the stronger; Rippled pool of circles now decreasing; Time has ceased and weathervane is sleeping; Stretches road at twilit end of day, Bound for home unknown, I take its way. View quote
Eino Leino
Slowly doth bud, and slowly doth mature The woodland oak, yet doth long time endure. Lashed by the winds, her leaves around she steews, But, the wind passed, her beauty she renews. View quote
Francesco Dall'Ongaro