“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres'… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling.… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations,"… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the… — Shirley Ann Grau Copy Share Image
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image