"Acorns were good until bread was found." — Francis Bacon

More Acorn Quotes

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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
• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence… — Thomas Carlyle
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird… — James Allen
• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Unknown Author
• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat… — 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… — Philip Roth
• If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.… — 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… — Ted Nugent
• Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back… — Shirley Ann Grau
• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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