(63 quotes found)
“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
“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”
Sir Walter Scott
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
“From little acorns mighty oaks do grow”
American Proverb
“[Since arriving in Oak Park in early summer, Collins has met one-on-one with each board member, principal, top administrator. She says she asked her staff members to assess their strengths and weaknesses, to set one personal professional goal for the year. A common request among principals was for training in] quick walk-throughs. ... They want to know what to look for. We can help them with that.”
Constance Collins
“In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak”
James Russell Lowell
“Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.”
Ernest Hemingway
“A mighty oak has fallen in God's forest.”
Jerry Falwell
