Oaks Quotations

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

We want to provide consumers a quick and convenient place to pick up a bottle of wine. Like some of our other popular proprietary brands, Thousand Oaks will be a high quality, great-tasting wine available only at 7-Eleven.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

One of the highlights for me has to be at the beginning with Balanchine who really got us going when she won the Oaks and the Irish Derby.

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 think the Kentucky Oaks winner comes through California this year.

It had everything white oaks for acorns, water close by, travel corridors and bedding areas.

River Oaks is one of the most prestigious and historically significant venues in American tennis and is going to be a great long term home for the Stanford Cup. We love the intimate feel of the venue and believe both the players and the fans will appreciate this special setting.

Pine is generally not an important allergen although it puts out tremendous amounts of pollen, ... but at the same time that pine trees are pollinating, oaks are pollinating.

National Quarries is threatening the very nature of the rural and equestrian character that has been preserved in Twin Oaks Valley for decades. National Quarries has not been a good neighbor, and I'm putting that lightly.

Just about every old tree in town is down. The town just will never look the same in our lifetime. It breaks my heart. I'm so disgusted. Just about every ancient pecan and a lot of the oaks are gone.

The acorn crop is really good. Both burr and red oaks have a lot of acorns.

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 needed the weight of the live oaks brought up so they wouldn't split. It took a lot of trimming.

Thousand Oaks is a very aggressive offensive rebounding team. That was a major concern. So I'm pretty happy with the rebound totals. But the turnovers kind of negate the rebounding edge.

An oak is no respecter of persons.

We have many, many significant historic trees. Fortunately, the backbone of the great live oaks still exists.

We got a call from one of our customers to come and trim her trees. This woman got a notice on her door that TXU would be cutting her trees, so she called us to come in and trim her two red oaks before they did.

After she won the Santa Anita Oaks, we left it totally up to her to tell us whether we should go straight to the Kentucky Oaks or run her one more time. She came out so strong and so happy that this was the logical move.

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

This is the defining moment for this horse. She's got to prove herself against open company. That race at Bay Meadows was much easier. The owners' goal is to make it to the Kentucky Oaks (at Churchill Downs on May 5), and this is one more proving ground to see if she is worthy.

This is part of the same cluster of cases and it seems very likely that they have had an exposure to the same source as the residents and staff at Seven Oaks (Home for the Aged),

It's always good to get a district win, but I am very displeased with the way that we played tonight. River Oaks has good athletes, and we just got lucky. They deserved it more than we did.

It's up to him but the Oaks looks like a put in and take out job.

In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

The city of Thousand Oaks is thrilled with this success. We're pleased to see an increasing number of people taking advantage of the many benefits of public transit.

The Derby and Oaks fans from throughout our region and across the United States, along with those that join us from around the world readily and easily adjusted to the major changes in our security and hospitality procedures when they were implemented four years ago. These procedures are now a regular part of the Derby and Oaks experience, and many patrons have told us that they enjoy these marvelous days of racing more now than ever before.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.