Mighty Oaks Quotes

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

  David Icke

  Yesterday, Nuts, Today

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Fall, Nuts

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• Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

  Anne Rice

  Space, Forests, Digital

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Destiny, Self, Tree

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.

  Darren Hardy

  Dream, Heart, Space

  "The Compound Effect". Book by Darren Hardy, 2011.

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• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

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• The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

  Confucius

  Wind, Storm, Stronger

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• You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fall, May Day, Labor Day Wishes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

  Glenn Turner

  Nuts, Tree, Balls

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• When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? 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.

  Richard Hamming

  Errors, Small Problems, Tree

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• This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Past

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