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I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career. -- Barack Obama
I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ... -- Hester Lynch Piozzi
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that. -- Graham Nelson
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers. -- Bre Pettis
Acorns were good until bread was found. -- Francis Bacon
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines. -- Doug Hoffman
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -- Thomas Carlyle
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn. -- Roger Ailes
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology. -- Joel Salatin
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult. -- Clive Anderson
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. -- Mario Batali
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. -- James Allen
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk! -- Lady Gregory
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. -- Marianne Williamson
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them. -- Jon Voight
An acorn would never brag about giving shade. -- Tim Cook
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. -- Susan Mallery
Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn. -- Jim Cornette
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. -- Will Smith
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. -- Charles Tomlinson
An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn. -- Wayne Dyer
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang. -- H. Rider Haggard
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Get you gone, you dwarf,You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,You bead, you acorn! -- William Shakespeare
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. -- Robert Jordan
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. -- Alan Watts
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. -- Edward Abbey
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. -- Patience Strong
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. -- Carl Jung
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. -- David Zindell
Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it. -- Aristotle
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree. -- Anthony Marra
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges. -- Derek Rydall
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. -- George Bernard Shaw
The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. -- Neil Gaiman
ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most. -- Roseanne Barr
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak. -- Robin Hobb
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another. -- Shirley Ann Grau
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree -- Vita Sackville-West
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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