Acorns Quotes
67 quotes by 63 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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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do…
— Richard Hamming
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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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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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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An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.
— Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
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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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Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.
— Jerry Coleman
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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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If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence.…
— George H. Smith
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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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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward…
— Paul Harding
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