Live Oaks

Famous quotes containing the words live and/or oaks:

    “And if I should live to be
    The last leaf upon the tree
    In the spring,
    Let them smile, as I do now,
    At the old forsaken bough
    Where I cling.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “He that depends
    Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
    And hews down oaks with rushes.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)