Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or include:
“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)
“I thought if war did not include killing, I’d like to see one every year.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)