"What is a human being, then?' A seed'……" — David Zindell
"What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."
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14 Quotes by David Zindell
David Zindell has 14 quotes on this site.
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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always…
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A man lusts to become a god…and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of…
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Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their…
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I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history,…
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The universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more…
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Self-creation is the highest art.
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Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a…
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Who would bring light must endure burning.
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It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able…
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If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which…
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Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.
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We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to…
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More Acorn Quotes
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one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— James Allen
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— 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…
— 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.…
— 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…
— 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…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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