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.
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.
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.
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.
An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.
The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.
I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.
I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.
The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
