Big Oak Flat

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

    “Whale on the beach, you dinosaur,
    what brought you smoothing into this dead harbor?
    If you’d stayed inside you could have grown
    as big as the Empire State.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Below me trees unnumbered rise,
    Beautiful in various dyes:
    The gloomy pine, the poplar blue,
    The yellow beech, the sable yew,
    The slender fir that taper grows,
    The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.”
    —John Dyer (1699–1758)

    “But pardon, gentles all,
    The flat unraised spirits that hath dared
    On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
    So great an object.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)