Grain Quotes · Page 8

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

— Martin Luther

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

— Samuel Johnson

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of…

— Og Mandino

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

— Hosea Ballou

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

— Wyclef Jean

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

— Christopher Paolini

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

— Homer

“Throw your grain into the see and it will come back to you”

— Thabiso Monkoe

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of…

— Ricky Skaggs

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just…

— Beyonce Knowles

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I…

— Ovid

Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I…

— Jay Roach

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay…

— Jack Handey

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter…

— Dmitry Medvedev

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them…

— Truman Capote

Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often…

— Mark Shand

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all…

— William McNamara

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared;…

— Roger L'Estrange

I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time…

— Tori Amos

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then…

— George Orwell

As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of…

— Dan Brown

It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert…

— Lester R. Brown

The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that…

— Walden Bello

Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want…

— Dan Colen

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling…

— Stephen Fry

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow…

— Jeremy Bentham

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

— Kevin Costner

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

— Bob Dylan

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

— Michael Shanks

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

— Rachel Carson

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of…

— John Buford

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

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Martin Luther

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

— Robin Sharma

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

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

— Paulo Coelho

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

— Jane Hirshfield