Acorn Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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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
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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
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Charles Tomlinson
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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
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
— Jim Cornette
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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
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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
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Acorn Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 53 Acorn Quotes, led by these top contributors: