I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
“An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.” — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
