The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations on Trifles
A small leak will sink a great ship.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.
-Michelangelo
-Michelangelo
It isn't the mountains that wear you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe.
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
Charge it to the dust and let the rain settle it.
-Grandma Coppadge
-Grandma Coppadge
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-Jonathan Kozol
-Jonathan Kozol
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