Acorns And Oaks Quotes & Sayings

People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. — Alice Monro

Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — Orison Swett Marden

She looks happy to me when she's beside you."
I laugh bitterly. "She looked real happy when she left."
"She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It's indifference that should scare you. The same look foster parents give you when you come and go. — Katie McGarry

Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there. — Nathan Filer

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks. — Steve Fowler

A loss is a loss, examine why you lost. A win is a win, evaluate what made you successful. — Chris Hanburger

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed. — Amanda Steele

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me. — Michael Strahan

Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow; — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success. — Mark Sanborn

it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance. — Larry McMurtry

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. — Alexander Pope

Parenthood seems really rewarding ... like martyrdom, but without the glamour. — Dov Davidoff

After all, what is man but a hoard of ghosts? Oaks, that were acorns, that were oaks ... — Walter De La Mare

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss. — John Berger

Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. "Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I'm so OCD."
NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT.
"Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack."
NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T.
"I'm so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar."
SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE. — Holly Bourne

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung