2007-10-03 15:27:43 · 4 answers · asked by turkeyherder2000 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
It means that great things often have small beginnings. Here is a site that discusses the quote.
2007-10-03 15:33:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Source and exact quote: From the little acorn a mighty oak grows.?
2015-08-19 00:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by Tedra 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
Meaning--Great things may come from small beginnings.
Origin--The word acorn doesn't come from 'oak' and 'corn', as is popularly supposed, but from the Old English 'aecern', meaning berry or fruit. The tree genus Acer comes from the same root.
Before oaks were mighty they were first either great, tall, sturdy or even just big. Examples of early variants of 'mighty oaks from little acorns grow' are found in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374,"as an ook cometh of a litel spyr" [a spyr, or spire, is a sapling]
Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, 1732:
"The greatest Oaks have been little Acorns."
2007-10-03 15:40:28 · answer #3 · answered by soupkitty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True: what else would they grow from? But note: the vast majority of acorns rot in the ground or are eaten, producing no oaks at all. And terrible spreading weeds also spring from tiny beginnings. Ground Elder, Kudzu, Japanese Knotweed or Giant Hogweed...
2016-03-19 13:17:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Parvis e glandibus quercus. "
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow."
2007-10-03 16:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by jsd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋