“An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.” — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“You look different now. Like a proper little girl." "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns." "Nice, though.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and… — Graham Nelson 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
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a… — Patience Strong 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
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
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres'… — Alexander Pope 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
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
“If footballs were the size of acorns, they’d be easy to lose in the forest. Virginity is also easy to lose in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak,… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the… — Shirley Ann Grau 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
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
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many people are struggling because they have not used what God has given them. God gives you an acorn; you invest it… — TD Jakes Copy Share Image
What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value. Each year an… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away land, there was a kingdom of acorns, nestled at the foot of a grand old… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny 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 theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try…” quote by Richard Hamming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ae/richard-hamming-14135_acorns_when-you-are-famous-it-is-hard-to-work-o_2457509.jpg)
