A Quote by Anne Sexton

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

Anne Sexton

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Fast Girl Held Herself Leaves Little Little Girl Oak Replica

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Anne Sexton
American - Poet
November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

Meryl Streep

"You look different now. Like a proper little girl," (said Gendry.) "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," (said Arya.) "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change."

George R. R. Martin

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

Nhat Hanh

I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.

Anne Sexton

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Gary Hamel

Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

Philippa Gregory

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.

Catherynne M. Valente

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

David Icke

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Martha Ostenso

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

Michael Portillo

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Nhat Hanh

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.