Oaks Quotes - Page 12

• Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators,
  head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.

  Peter Lynch

  Tree, Heaven, Consistency

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

  Edgar Fawcett

  Earth, Praise, Grass

  Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sky, Color, Rose

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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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• Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Years, California

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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Pigs, Tree

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• Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Baby, Differences

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  Alexander Pope

  Oats, Hands, Agriculture

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• As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Gourds, Vines

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

  Horace

  Ocean, Heart, Firsts

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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• I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

  Jennifer Aniston

  California, Born

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• There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiration, California, Tree

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• If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

  Igor Levit

  Artist, Silence, Tree

  "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.

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• When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tree, Noses, Praise

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, School, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.

  George Will

  Struggle, Government, Iraq

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

  Joshua Mohr

  Errors, Trial And Error, Poison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Rights, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.

  Roger Housden

  Tree, Way, Doe

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Beauty, Wisdom

  'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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• In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Night, Air, Discipline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.

  Sarah Lafleur

  Mother, Stronger, Stubborn

  "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.

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