A Quote by Rachel Naomi Remen

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.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Rachel Naomi Remen
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Born: February 8, 1938

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

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

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

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

Alan Watts

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

Barack Obama

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

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

George R. R. Martin

A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

Katha Pollitt

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

H. Rider Haggard

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

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

Charles Tomlinson

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

An acorn would never brag about giving shade.

Tim Cook

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