Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . .… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and… — Martiros Saryan Copy Share Image
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not always agree, personally, on the positions that Bartlet, character from the West Wing, took and I argued against them… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I won't say my nutrition is perfect. If I'm at a restaurant and there's fresh pasta on the menu, I'm going to… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than… — Guy Berryman Copy Share Image
I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam,… — Kaspar Hauser Copy Share Image
I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image