Oaks Quotes - Page 13

• I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Basketball, Rap, School

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Heart, Eagles

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Lasts, Liquid, Cracks

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

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• The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens.

  James Turrell

  Mean, Sky, Ideas

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• At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" Briar shrugged. "Just thought I'd mention it." Niko glared.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nice, Eye, Boys

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• 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

  Powerful, Wind, Storm

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.119, Macmillan

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• You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Thinking, Tree

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.116, Random House

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• Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Memories, Together

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• Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

  Robin McKinley

  Wall, Compassion, Names

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• What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

  Ian Mcewan

  Spring, Racing, Labyrinth

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.1, Random House

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• It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

  Steven J Lawson

  Tree, Would Be, Easier

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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Character, Adversity

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• My home address is a small apartment in Fair Oaks, California but I'm here in Ho Chi Minh City right now staying in a rented room and this is where I spend a good part of every year.

  Doug Rice

  Home, Cities, California

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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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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• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thanksgiving, Rich, Clean

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Dream, Giving Up, Block

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.277, e-artnow

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• The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

  Robin Hobb

  Children, Men, Tree

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.121, Spectra

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• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Doors, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Angel, Clouds

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.212

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• The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Ambition, Men, Acorns

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

  Rob Brezsny

  Weed, Nature, Kissing

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