Grain Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.
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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
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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.
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Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
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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?
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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.
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
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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.
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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.
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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
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He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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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.
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If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.
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I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?
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I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.
