Famous quotes containing the words oak, city and/or days:
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
—Mignon McLaughlin (b. c. 1915)