Acorn Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the… — Mario Batali
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and… — James Allen
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn. — Jim Cornette
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That… — Marianne Williamson
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey
I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured… — Ted Nugent
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 another… — Shirley Ann Grau
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out… — William Makepeace Thackeray
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. — Henry David Thoreau
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It… — Jon Voight
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably… — Winston Churchill
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There… — Maya Angelou
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. — Carl Jung

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