Acorn Quote by Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Alan Watts

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.

— David Zindell

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.

— Will Smith

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily…

— Robin Hobb

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

— Henry David Thoreau

ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40…

— Michelle Malkin

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for…

— Clive Anderson

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For…

— Shirley Ann Grau

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