Little strokes fell great oaks. [ Proverb ]

Tall oaks from little acorns grow. [ David Everett ]

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. [ Proverb ]

The greatest oaks have but little acorns. [ Proverb ]

When the splitting wind makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. [ William Shakespeare ]

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. [ Beecher ]

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]