“Royal Oak seems to be a city of animal lovers. It's ingrained in this town.”
Dan Godek
“I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.”
“At the start of this season, we asked the kids if they wanted to swim as Royal Oak, or if they wanted to be known as the Ravens. They preferred to be Royal Oak for one more season.”
Darrin Millar
“We do tend to have more issues with the oaks. We have a lot of oak trees that are 100 to 150 years old, and oaks typically begin breaking down in the 150- to 200-year-old range, although there are always exceptions to that.”
John Punches
“Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
Wilfred Peterson
“Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.”
William Arthur Ward
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
William Shakespeare
