Home Quote by Roger Deakin Download Open image ““My house was once an acorn.”” — Roger Deakin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home
“You fell out of a tree? What are you, an acorn?” — Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen Copy Share Image
“It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn...I've come… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For the acorn to move forward in its life, it must first be severed from everything it has ever known. It must fall from… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“I found a hollow in an old, forgiving tree, curled up within it, and hoarded my thoughts like acorns.” — Sarah Diemer Copy Share Image
“Seeing a tree in an acorn and a house in a plank of wood is hope bringing a new tomorrow.” — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be more careful… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway,… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed. — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“The real wages of potters are in the daily silent appreciations of each of their customers as they pour the morning tea from their… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“At night you write out of guilt, but in the morning you write out of hope.” — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.” — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
I need someone to fold the sheet, someone to take the other end of the sheet and walk towards me and fold once ,… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image