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Acorns Quotes

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

Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.24, Sounds True

The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

1838 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

Susan Mallery (2012). “Falling for Gracie”, p.30, Harlequin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.35

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

Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.488, Macmillan

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 (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics