Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
My favourite season is autumn, and I love walking through woods.
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!
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
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.
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The world state is inherent in the United Nations as an oak tree is in an acorn.
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.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
