Grain Quotes

• An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Harvest
  • Coats

• I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Comfortable
  • Accepted
  • Secure

• I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Determine
  • Grain
  • Salt

• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Names

• Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Single
  • Desert
  • Sahara

• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Remember
  • Grain
  • Indian

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Grain
  • Monotony
  • Grinds

• Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Stone
  • Palace
  • Loaf

• Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mother
  • Grass
  • Cow

• And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Grain
  • Commonplace
  • Chaff

• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  

  William Petty
  • Seven
  • Quantity
  • Commodity

• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Buckets

• He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Hungry
  • Harvest
  • Marble

• If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Men
  • Death
  • Spirit

• Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Speak

• Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Property

• I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Hand

• From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

  

  Confucius
  • Sand
  • Grain
  • Pearl

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Express
  • Grain
  • Varnish

• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Evidence

• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Mountain
  • Anger
  • Sand

• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Energy
  • Mountain
  • Abundance

• In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • World
  • Mean
  • Everyday

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