Big Oak Flat

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

“Look, mister, I’m so tired you’d be doin’ me a big favor if you’d blow my head off.”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)

“Where he swings in the wind and rain,
In the sun and in the snow,
Without pleasure, without pain,
On the dead oak tree bough.”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)