Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“An acorn is an oak tree inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“An acorn is an oak tree turned inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You fell out of a tree? What are you, an acorn?”

— Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen

“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

“We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.”

— Betsy Lerner

“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

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly...…

— John Geddes

“For the acorn to move forward in its life, it must first be severed from everything it has ever known. It must fall from…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of…

— Beatrice Chestnut

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn…

— William Makepeace Thackeray