Top 41 Oak And Acorn Quotes

#1. You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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#2. Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!

George Bernard Shaw

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#3. 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

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#4. The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#5. I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash ...

Hester Lynch Piozzi

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#6. 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.

Shepherd Hoodwin

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#7. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.

Robin Jarvis

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#8. There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

Lady Gregory

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#9. Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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#10. What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel.

Philip Roth

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#11. An acorn does not see itself as a seed, but as an oak tree.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#12. The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We

Malcolm Gladwell

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#13. 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.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#15. 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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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#16. 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.

Anthony Marra

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

Alan Watts

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#18. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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#19. The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

Neil Gaiman

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#20. They have said that the Lilim were dead before now, but they have always lied. The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe who will grow to slay me.

Neil Gaiman

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#21. 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.

Tad R. Callister

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#22. 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

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#23. 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

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#24. 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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#25. Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

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

T.A. Cline

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#27. When our instinctual life is shamed, the natural core of our life is bound up. It's like an acorn going through excruciating agony for becoming an oak, or a flower feeling ashamed for blossoming.

John Bradshaw

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#28. The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

Charles Tomlinson

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#29. 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.

Aristotle.

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#30. 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?

Elsa Barker

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#31. 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.

Robin Hobb

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#32. 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.

Sue Monk Kidd

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#33. 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.

Marianne Williamson

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#34. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Jeff Wheeler

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

Henry David Thoreau

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#36. 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.

Derek Rydall

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#37. Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Patience Strong

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

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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#39. 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

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#40. 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?

Sue Monk Kidd

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#41. For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

George R R Martin

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