quotes about Acorns
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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
-- Alan Watts -
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 -
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
-- Charles TomlinsonSource : Charles Tomlinson (1997). “Selected Poems: 1955-1997”, p.80, New Directions Publishing
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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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The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
-- H. Rider HaggardSource : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
-- Jim Cornette -
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
-- Shirley Jackson -
No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.
-- Steve Fowler -
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
-- Susan MallerySource : Susan Mallery (2012). “Falling for Gracie”, p.30, Harlequin
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Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.
-- Will Smith -