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  • Acorns were good until bread was found. -- Francis Bacon
  • Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. -- Susan Mallery
  • 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
  • An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. -- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
  • I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career. -- Barack Obama
  • Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. -- E. F. Schumacher
  • I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America, -- Ted Nugent
  • 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
  • Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end. -- W. H. Auden
  • No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks. -- Steve Fowler
  • I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees. -- Master P
  • I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. -- Shirley Jackson
  • It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. -- Betsy Lerner
  • Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel. -- Jerry Coleman
  • You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from? -- Terry Pratchett
  • Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. -- Alexander Pope
  • Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 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
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