Big Oak Flat

Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:

    Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,—and has wit in it, and instruction too,—if we can but find it out.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And thou, all-shaking thunder,
    Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
    Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once
    That makes ingrateful man!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)