Oak Grove High

Famous quotes containing the words oak, grove and/or high:

    Below me trees unnumbered rise,
    Beautiful in various dyes:
    The gloomy pine, the poplar blue,
    The yellow beech, the sable yew,
    The slender fir that taper grows,
    The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
    John Dyer (1699–1758)

    Bees don’t swarm in a mango grove for nothing.
    Where can you see a wisp of smoke
    without a fire?
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)