Acorn Quotes
Small seed, several meanings.
These acorn quotes use the word in genuinely different ways — as a metaphor for unrealized potential, as the first vegetable that marks a cook's changing season, and as shorthand for a specific political controversy. The potential-versus-actuality argument echoes themes found under Baby.
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
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...
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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.
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average...
American Citizens Quotes
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and...
Soup is really easy to make: you can take basil, celery, acorn squash and boil them and then put them in the blender with sea salt. It's delicious and only takes about 15 minutes. You can make it the night...
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One quote is a direct, attributed political statement criticizing the Obama administration's handling of the ACORN organization, included here as recorded commentary rather than editorial position. For related reflections on the American public, see American Citizens and Average American.
