#oak

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ↗

— E. B. White

#bent #days #effect #ill #knowingly

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#behind #big #could #fence #go

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him. ↗

— Charles Wolfe

#cloak #him #his #lay #like

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. ↗

— Paul Getty

#governments #rich #soak

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. ↗

— Norman Granz

#hearing #jazz #knowing #music #pop

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#i #like #oakland #playing #uniform

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#best #chose #dream #football #get

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. ↗

— George Herbert

#grow #make #oak #roots #storms

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#becomes #blatant #cloak #cowardice #dares

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#coat #elbows #hat #his #i