Consuming Quote by John Geddes

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word… An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes…

— Julian Barnes

“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a lot of…

— Beatrice Chestnut

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away land, there was a kingdom of acorns, nestled at the foot of a grand old oak tree.…

— Beatrice Chestnut

“I found a hollow in an old, forgiving tree, curled up within it, and hoarded my thoughts like acorns.”

— Sarah Diemer

“...which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of…

— Salman Rushdie

“An acorn is an oak tree turned inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.”

— Betsy Lerner

“An acorn is an oak tree inside out.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You fell out of a tree? What are you, an acorn?”

— Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen