Grain Quotes

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.