Without courage you cannot practice any of the other…

“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