Acorn And Oak Tree Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Clive Anderson

#2. Ninjas don't splash other ninjas," "The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all." I said. - Author: John Green

#3. The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed. - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree. - Author: Shepherd Hoodwin

#5. You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important. - Author: Adriana Trigiani

#6. An acorn does not see itself as a seed, but as an oak tree. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. When You Weren't Looking
... why.
... Can't you
... care
... more
... about
... me. - Author: Ellen Hopkins

#8. The tree does not end at it's skin but exists also in the rain that falls downwind, many miles from the forest. In the seed exists the acorn, the oak, and the shade. - Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

#9. There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. - Author: Jon Weisman

#10. But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit? Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars? - Author: Kahlil Gibran

#11. couldn't have explained then how the oak tree lives inside the acorn or how I suddenly realized that in the same enigmatic way something lived inside of me - the woman I would become - but it seemed I knew at once who she was. - Author: Sue Monk Kidd

#12. 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. - Author: Anthony Marra

#13. The difference between man and God is significant - but it is one of degree, not kind. It is the difference between an acorn and an oak tree, a rosebud and a rose, a son and a father ... Every man is a potential god in embryo. - Author: Tad R. Callister

#14. The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln. - Author: Fletcher Knebel

#15. 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. - Author: Shirley Ann Grau

#16. I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. - Author: John Mason Brown

#17. When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!' - Author: Lynda Barry

#18. A public debt is a public curse. - Author: James Madison

#19. The giant oak tree of a story, started with a small acorn of a thought.
-T.A. Cline - Author: T.A. Cline

#20. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober. - Author: Moby

#21. Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks. - Author: Bas Rutten

#22. Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage. - Author: Lark Voorhies

#23. Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live! - Author: CLAMP

#24. Wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between lives. Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak? - Author: Elsa Barker

#25. 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. - Author: Robin Hobb

#26. How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn ... I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn. - Author: Sue Monk Kidd

#27. 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. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#28. 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. - Author: Derek Rydall

#29. Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. - Author: Patience Strong

#30. A woman, nothing existed but the domestic sphere and those tiny flowers etched on the pages of my art book. For a woman to aspire to be a lawyer - well, possibly, the world would end. But an acorn grew into an oak tree, didn't it? - Author: Sue Monk Kidd