Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns…

“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

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

— Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

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

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

— Alan Watts

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.

— Jim Cornette

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

“Delusional thinking, obviously, the other acorns concluded, but one of them continued to engage him in conversation: “So tell us, how would we become…

— Beatrice Chestnut

“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and…

— Terry Nardin

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

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

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

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

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

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

— Anonymous