100+ Oaks Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "He Heals the Heavy Laden". Dallin H. Oaks' priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 2006.

topic: Brother, Jesus, Prayer, Oaks

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

- Dallin H. Oaks

source: "Desire". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. April 2011.

topic: Choices, Priorities, Desire, Oaks, Priorities In Life

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

- Dallin H. Oaks

topic: Jesus, Order, Christ, Oaks

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Soulmate, Giving, Something Better, Inspirational Tree, Oak Tree

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Happiness, Simplicity, Needs, Frugality, Oaks

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Success, Dream, Achievement, Oaks, Greatest Achievement

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

- Dallin H. Oaks

topic: Differences, Diversity, Choices, Oaks, Public Policy

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

- Kirsten Dunst

source: "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

topic: Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction, Jeopardy, Oaks

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Want, Abundance, Enough, Oaks, What Is Happiness

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Morning, Afternoon, Shade, Oaks

The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.

- James Lee

topic: Rain, Fall, Cutting, Thick, Oaks

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

- Walter Scott

source: Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

topic: Adversity, Presence Of Mind, Tempest, Oaks, Frivolous

What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel.

- Philip Roth

topic: Writing, Mind, Acorns, Oaks, Mackerel

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

- Rosa Parks

topic: Inspirational, Fall, Nuts, Mighty Oaks, Stand For Something

The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

- Noel Coward

topic: Political, House, Theatre, Oaks

On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

- James Thayer

topic: Fall, Writing, Blow, Oaks

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

topic: Sea, Oxen, Giving, Oaks, Allure

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak;

- Willard Mullin

topic: Common, Folks, Strongest, Oaks, Common Folk

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: War, Genius, Forests, Oaks

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Summer, Winter, Wind, Icicles, Oaks

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Heart, Brave, England, Renowned, Oaks

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine, John Dos Passos (2008). “The Essential Thomas Paine”, p.65, Courier Corporation

topic: Character, Names, Tree, Engraved, Continental

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2713, Delphi Classics

topic: Nature, Afternoon, Shrubs, Oaks

Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

- Mary Oliver

topic: Morning, Past, Years, Oaks

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

- Gail Carson Levine

topic: Children, Clouds, Lilies, Oaks, Brushing

We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

- Juliet Marillier

source: Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

topic: Strong, Rain, Storm, Oaks, Grove

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Hands, Tree, Mind, Oak Tree, Oaks

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

- Rick Warren

topic: Struggle, Years, Mushrooms, Oaks, Great Souls

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

- Anthony Marra

topic: Mother, Father, Heart, Oak Tree, Oaks

And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)

- Susan Branch

topic: Views, Wind, Lakes, Pastures, Oaks

After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

- Elizabeth George Speare

topic: Yellow, Jewels, Color, Unexpected Things, Maple

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

- Thomas Kyd

source: c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

topic: Time, Pain, Fall, Wedges, Rue

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Time, Down And, Littles, Medieval War, Oaks

Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, University of Missouri Press

topic: Running, Clouds, Air, Masts, Miscellany

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Faith, Knowledge, Pigs, Oak Tree, Oaks

I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

- Ann Aguirre

source: "Outpost". Book by Ann Aguirre, 2012.

topic: Eye, Animal, People, Oaks

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

- Bernard of Clairvaux

topic: Nature, Fields, Scripture, Oaks

The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.