Acorns Quotes

“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.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.”
― Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

“The trench, my grave, once covered over, shall then have acorns strewn over it, in order that the spot become green again, and the copse grown back thick over it, so that any trace of my grave will disappear from the face of the earth, just as I trust the memory of me will fade from the minds of everyone, save for the few who in their goodness have loved me to the last, and of whom I carry a sweet remembrance with me to the grave.”
― Marquis de Sade, Stories, Tales, & Fables

“I planted an acorn twenty years ago just for fun. Today it is the pride of all my planting. It is now twenty-five feet high. Who knows, you may live to enjoy those plantings of your earlier days and derive peace and joy each year you live to greet them.”
― Conrad Meinecke, Your Cabin In The Woods: A Compilation Of Cabin Plans And Philosophy For Discovering Life In The Great Outdoors

“The ground under the oak tree was littered with hundreds of acorns. And it dawned on me that I was standing in the forest of tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough