In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. Votes: 3
Bess Streeter AldrichWhere are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? Votes: 3
Bill VaughanMusic has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Votes: 1
William CongreveAt my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. Votes: 1
Alain DucasseIn creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. Votes: 1
James Russell LowellThe tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerGehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak; Votes: 0
Willard MullinMany strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareA large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneThe oak ... has not the efficacy of the fir , nor the cypress that of the elm . Votes: 0
Marcus Vitruvius PollioThe mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. Votes: 0
Thomas Haynes BaylyThe oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. Votes: 0
Robert JordanMusic has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." Votes: 0
William CongreveThe willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Votes: 0
Walter ScottThe oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillThe acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfLong cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. Votes: 0
Gladys TaberIt is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. Votes: 0
Thor HeyerdahlI wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. Votes: 0
Donald HallThe little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself. Votes: 0
Anne SextonThe green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. Votes: 0
ConfuciusIf a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! Votes: 0
T. Harv EkerIt takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. Votes: 0
Alan WattsYou cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyHere and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze. Votes: 0
Martha OstensoI see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak. Votes: 0
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