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  • Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.

  • Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "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.

    Wind   Nuts   Patterns  
    Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”
  • People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

    Life   People   Decision  
    Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

  • What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

    Past   Numbers   Growth  
    Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation
  • ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most.

    Hurt   Jobs   New Orleans  
  • An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

    Men   Two   Hammocks  
  • No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

    Want   Acorns   Oaks  
  • Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

    Food   Thinking   Sheep  
  • I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

    Dog   Food   Differences  
  • We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  • 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, Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom (1991). “The Piozzi Letters: 1792-1798”, Univ of Delaware Pr
  • 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
  • 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.

    Children   Ideas   People  
  • Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  • 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.

  • "You look different now. Like a proper little girl," (said Gendry.) "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," (said Arya.) "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. [...] You even smell nice for a change."

    Girl   Nice   Stupid  
    "A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three". Book by George R. R. Martin, 2000.
  • Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

    Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”
  • When [Steven Lerner] says that unions and so forth are "dead," he's talking about clout. He's talking about power. But "community organizations," the ACORN types, these are the groups that can successfully organize a strike - a strike meaning people just stop paying back on their loans.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • 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.

    Children   Men   Tree  
    Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.121, Spectra
  • Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

    Men   Self   Perfect  
  • I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

    "Did Obama Lie About Relationship With ACORN?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2010.
  • The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

    Mind   Mammals   Acorns  
    Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.105, Dell
  • 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.

    Nuts   Littles   Acorns  
    Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”
  • The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

  • Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

    Funny   Baseball   Humor  
  • Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

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

    Writing   Mind   Acorns  
  • "What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

    Fear   Tree   Growing  
    "The Broken God". Book by David Zindell, 1992.
  • The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

    Night   Roots   Acorns  
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