#oak

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#blade #creating #easier #grass #hard

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. ↗

— James Madison

#ceaseless #centuries #church #europe #forever

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#contrary #diamonds #difficulties #grow #life

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#freedom #let us #liberty #our #prize

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time. ↗

— John McEnroe

#come #fast #fearless #guys #information

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#best #billy #bob #did #era

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. ↗

— Henry Miller

#capable #could #enough #idea #killing

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#between #bit #explore #forth #get

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland. ↗

— Jim Otto

#fans #great #had #loyal #oakland

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#condemn #pain #whenever #world