#oak

...true intimacy—sharing who you are, the very deepest part of you—with Him. God wants to listen to who you are. ↗

— Linda Boone

#journaling-with-god #soaking #life

I say love, it knows no season. It haunts the soul eternally. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#love #love

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#choice #love #rain #skin #soaked

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#band #baseman #because #bucket #couple

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#echoes #fall #forest #hundred #oak

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#another #beyond #down #famous #first

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. ↗

— Paula Deen

#bird #chance #chicken #cooking #dinner

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#entertainment #fiction #film #get #making

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cloak #conviction #killing #murder #nothing

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ↗

— Voltaire

#aged #board #child #father #his