Oak Quotations

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

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.

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

The plight of California's natural environment is mirrored by the plight of the salamander, ... As the salamander loses its habitat, so too does California lose its precious oak woodlands, grasslands and vernal pools.

There are some beautiful oak trees on that road. I would hate to see those destroyed.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

We're looking for teams from all over. If Oak Grove brought a team over, we'd love to have them, although we'd really like to have as many Petal kids as possible playing.

When I came down to Hilton Head and saw all the natural beauty, I said, 'Good-bye barns, hello ocean, hello live oak trees,

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

One of our goals is to be national champs, and we have to beat Oak Hill to do that. It's a big game for our team, and the city is making it a big game too. It's one our kids really wanted to play.

Oak is always going to be the most popular.

If they have good growing space with no overhead utilities, there are still good species of oak that will do well. Willow oak is an excellent tree. The problem is not having willow oaks but having so many, and so many the same age.

I am extremely proud of these kids for all of their hard work, enthusiasm and achievements. Every year it amazes me how much money Oak Hill contributes to the American Heart Association, all while having a blast and getting a great work out at the same time.

I am standing here looking at the oak trees that would be taken away.

Because so much of York Region is protected by the Oak Ridges Moraine and the greenbelt, there is a very limited amount of strategically located land.

I have always been very interested in historic architecture. It's just got a rich history from the famous garden district to the oak lined streets.

I feel like I've been playing well, and being back at Oak Hills should put me in a good frame of mind.

I expect Oak ridge to come out and play extremely hard. They've got more All-District guys coming back than we do. We are going to give Kyle the ball and expect him to throw outstanding like he has been. Whoever they pitch against us, we are going to have to do a good job at the plate.

He traveled all over there, and when he finally retired, he retired in Victoria and built the first home in Victoria Tod House in Oak Bay.

Here in St. Charles, you can't believe what it was like six months ago, in the sense that to imagine when you're looking at debris, wires down, big oak trees upturned, that this many months later, you'd be able to have this sort of party going on.

Having Oak Manor as a sixth grade center is fabulous. Having one grade here at the school has been a lot easier. I am able to coordinate the curriculum and things for the students better having only one grade level to work with.

Well, you potentially could plant a lower allergy garden, but while you're out there planting it, you will bombarded by oak pollen, maples, grasses,

I thought White Oak played extremely well tonight. They came out right off the ball and put us on our heels. We knew there would be a different energy level and focus.

I think when we leave here next September, I'd rather see golf as the main winner and both teams leave on an upbeat and positive note. I think we're very, very fortunate to be playing on such a wonderful golf course as Oak Hill.

I thought the kids really played hard, especially on defense. But Red Oak hit some shots to stay out in front.

I think every great writer in history has taken a cigar from that humidor, sat down in the Oak Bar and had a good puff.

Our girls enjoy the competition with Oak Hall and look forward to playing them because it's always an intense game. We had an up-and-down season this year, we lost eight games by one goal and played a really tough schedule, but Oak Hall played well.

Our offensive line gave the best performance I have seen during my time at Oak Hill. I mean, you don't get 400 yards of offense by not playing hard.

My mother will be buried tomorrow at 10 o'clock in her final resting place at Oak Ridge Cemetery. We want to move on. . . . We will go to the courts to protect our mother.

Live oak in the age of wooden ships was the best available ship timber; it is strong and dense and more importantly it grows in gentle curves that are almost analogous to the frames in a ship's structure. So it's really excellent material for shipbuilding.

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.

We have a good district with good football players. Hattiesburg, Oak Grove and St. Stanislaus have good programs. Our players have done a good job.

We have had great teams and individuals play at Oak Hill. These kids get to go down in history with those guys as a part of Eagle basketball. They got to do it with a win at home on senior night.

We can step up and get better or we can continue to slide. At times we have showed a lot of promise and other times we seemed confused. I thought we were very physical with Oak Grove and then it seemed like we lost that with Pleasant Hill. Obviously we want to get back that intensity level we had with Oak Grove.

We needed this. It was kind of what the doctor ordered because last week we struggled in terms of scoring. We put up 44 against Red Oak and 48 against LC, and our offense is better than that. It wasn't a case where we were turning it over, it was a case where we didn't shoot well, and tonight we shot it very, very well. We got some confidence back.

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.

We are not using inferior pavement. It's sort of like using oak instead of mahogany, you still are going to have a good quality project.

We didn't show up in the first half. Oak Hills deserves all the credit in the world for taking it to us in our own gym to start the game. I was proud that we came back, but Steve Pogue stepped up and made some big shots for them.

We don't have any plans for improvements to that area right now. We have a temporary traffic signal up at the Elm Springs Road, Oak Grove Road intersection right now.

We are definitely disappointed, especially after the way the team played in the second half last week against Oak Grove,

Tomorrow (against Oak Ridge) will be a test of our character. I thought we lost our composure today and we can't do that against top-level opponents.

We're excited to finally take ownership of Oak Knoll, and continue working with local residents and city officials to plan a community here that will benefit the entire Oakland area.

We've built up an entire industry, ... and all of a sudden, we're not welcomed. It's not the practice of forestry when you are mapping oak woodlands.

With a proven track record as a reliable, low cost producer able to meet the needs of our customers with a diversity of operations, coal qualities and transportation options, we believe we can continue our record-setting performance in the future, as the Gibson South and White Oak mines reached their full potential.

We are excited to have Bobby on board as Executive Producer, and expect his talent and years of experience will give Oak Films an edge as the project goes into production and then on to market.

Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year for Russell Athletic. Additionally, sales weakness in Mossy Oak continued throughout the year, with declines of approximately 20% from 2004.

Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.

The Grand's giant oak trees weathered the storm very well and today remain as majestic as ever.

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.

We've had players from Sumrall, Oak Grove, North Forrest and Petal. We've had them from all around here. I think they enjoy coming up here and the fans enjoy it, too.

Through the years, I've watched teams like Oak Hall that didn't necessarily have the most athletic personnel still be able to play solid man-to-man. It made me start to think we should defend more along those lines. We started doing it more last year and had some growing pains, but we're playing it a lot better now.

We weren't ready to play in the early going. We started too slow. They have some excellent players. Oak is not ranked No. 1 in the state for nothing.

We went beyond the perimeter where we saw rats and worked back to the garden. The theory was that we were herding rats back to the garden and didn't want them crossing Oak Manor Drive and going into the neighborhood. I think we took all of the precautions we could and had a lot of experts helping us deal with the situation,

We woke up when we heard the rain, but we didn't think there was any danger. Then this big oak tree fell on the tent,

We could put parking in the front yard and cut down some of the beautiful oak trees out there. I'd really hate to see it become a wall of parking. But I guess we could consider that.

Billie Jean King opened iron-clad doors to women in sports, and Julie is breaking down some oak doors. Julie means that much to women's athletics.

Every great writer in history has taken a cigar from that humidor and sat down in the Oak Room for a puff.

At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.

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.

Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

I've been doing this for 18 years. It was a little sapling, and now it's a sturdy oak tree, firmly planted in the ground.

Things are still happening in Oak Park. It doesn't mean it's the end of all the problems, but yes, ... we can breathe a lot more easily.

The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window.

It would be such a great accomplishment for the program and the little kids who want to play for the Oak leafs when they get older. It'd great to have another Des Moines team win a championship.

The seller said that you can be pretty sure that the property was a very prosperous farm to have such a great barn there. The fact that the posts are oak and the rest is white pine is also very unusual and points to a wealthy landowner.

SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see, All frosted there in the shine o' the moon -- Dead for a Scarabee And a recollection that came too late. O Fate! They buried him where he lay, He sleeps awaiting the Day, In state, And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan, Gloom over the grave and then move on. Dead for a Scarabee! --Fernando Tapple

Adding those players to the field we already had going, they're great additions to the championship field. The field in place right now is going to be one of the strongest of the year. We're really excited about the legends of the game coming to Oak Tree.

As indicated earlier, we were disappointed in our 2005 financial results. Despite certain areas of our business having record performances, such as international apparel and Brooks, we did experience disappointing sales overall in our Sporting Goods segment. Unfilled orders earlier in the year contributed to weaker sales results for the balance of the year for Russell Athletic. Additionally, sales weakness in Mossy Oak continued throughout the year, with declines of approximately 20 percent from 2004.

That shows what the papers know. Oak Forest was rated higher than we were. That shows we're underrated.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

There's a large oak tree in the Newton Centre park playground that is legendary because only a few humans have hit it with a baseball from home plate, and B.J. Novak is among them. And I was there that day.

This is the Super Bowl of Royal Oak downtown. For some retailers, the bottom line is better than Christmas.

This is what we wanted. We were hoping to play White Oak in their gym in the championship game with a nice crowd. I thought this was a really great game for us.

It will be a fun time to be able to play a venue like the Royal Oak Music Theatre and to be able to play a big show for our hometown crowd. We haven't had the chance to do that for a couple of years.

It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline is up to 7 feet on the house. It's like somebody dropped a nuclear weapon and just killed everything. There's not any sign of life. There's no greenery. It's bizarre. It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.

It's funny, Rudi is putting down roots in Cincinnati like an old oak tree,

It's really moving to see this kind of support for the museum from the Oak Lawn community and the area.

It's would be real tough to catch Oak Park. But tomorrow's another day. It's kind of a day for individuals. We still want to finish as high as possible as a team, but it's more about individuals bringing home medals at this point.

It takes time to get foundations established, but you can't grow an oak tree without planting an acorn.

They did not quit (after Prospect scored). I've seen Oak Park teams drop their heads when that happened in the past. They lifted each other up and rose to the challenge. That type of attitude will take them far in soccer and life.

They will send sometimes two, sometimes three or even four players on a play. They will bring a lot of pressure so we should be prepared for it. Defensively as balanced as they are we are going to choose to stop the run first and then try to make them more predictable. We've added a few wrinkles against Oak Grove. As far as conference championship we need to win this football game. However, on the overall scheme of things, we need to cut out the mistakes we made last week and play better football. I just want to see us make a big improvement over last week.

This is just another one of the steps in the process of developing the Oak Grove project. We're still excited about the many benefits this plant can bring to Texas.

I want to see how we've progressed and how we'll react to playing against Oak Hill, particularly our guards. It's obviously a daunting task. But we had very little team chemistry when we played them in November. I'm expecting our effort to be much-improved.

Not to get sacrilegious, but it's the Sistine Chapel of golf. When you go to Rome, don't you have to go to the Sistine Chapel? When you go to the Masters you have to go to the oak tree. This setting is special.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree

I'm glad to be in position to have a chance to advance. We did not play very good on the front nine as a team, so we had to play really hard on the back nine. We were considerably down to Klein Oak (11 shots) at the turn. The kids seemed to relax and get more comfortable out there. With the threat of rain (today), you never want to be in third place after the first day.

I'm totally in support of having single-family occupancy here in Oak Hill. I'm still trying to understand the rest of this.

Can the work be started from the top and then opened to the community down to Live Oak while the work continues further down the hill,

He's somewhat complicated, a little bit of a freak, and that's the reason we have him. We have to get him here earlier, he takes a little more care, but it's just him. You have to listen to the horse, understand what he's telling you. Josephine Abercrombie was generous enough to let us stay at Pin Oak Farm.

I don't know if the Red Oak numbers include their annexation to Interstate 45 or not. The annexation is currently being challenged in court so that number could change.

By bringing in Oak Ridge for independent reviews to assess our technical work, we ensure the highest level of expertise and credibility as we move the project forward.

These I saw there, in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being built with an arched roof.

The great thing about oak is that it looks old. It is beautifully solid and well made. There is something about the style you can't help being attracted to.

A giant oak in the forest of public service has fallen,

And it's our homecoming week. As a coach, homecoming has always bothered me, but it's one of those things you've got to live with. Hopefully we can stay focused for this Charter Oak game.

The Downtown Oak Park Plan anticipates improvements to the underpass,

A mighty oak has fallen in God's forest.