oak Quotes and Quotations
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oak Quotes and Quotations
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. James Allen | top
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Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue. Leonard Boswell | top
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. Robert Byrd | top
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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 | top
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My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. Adelbert von Chamisso | top
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. Leonard Cohen | top
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Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. Marcelene Cox | top
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway? John Ensign | top
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I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks. Claire Forlani | top
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei | top
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. Norman Granz | top
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. George Herbert | top
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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. Lyndon B. Johnson | top
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. Irving R. Kaufman | top
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | top
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Russell Lowell | top
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. Henry Miller | top
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I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks. Donald G. Mitchell | top
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We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland. Jim Otto | top
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Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. Marge Piercy | top
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. Hugh Prather | top
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. William Proxmire | top
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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. Will Rogers | top
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I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. Paul Ryan | top
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The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. Pete Wilson | top