"In the age of acorns, before the times……" — Henry Brooke
"In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India"
More Acorns Quotes
- 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… — 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. — Charles Tomlinson
- The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat… — Rollo May
- When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in.… — Richard Hamming
- 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
- Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey