Acorns Quotations

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories ...

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.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

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.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.