Acorns Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acorns Birth Breeze Unnoticed
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.” — Thomas Carlyle 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 ground. For… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed. — Hannah Whitall Smith 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 an acorn… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there… exists more and it knows it. It… — Robin Rumi Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny 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' gifts in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn… — Rachel Naomi Remen 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 barbarism and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
