Grain Quotes · Page 5

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

— Baltasar Gracian

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

— Khalil Gibran

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

— Mark Wahlberg

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

— Jose Marti

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

— Ivan Panin

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

— Silas Weir Mitchell

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer…

— Bertrand Russell

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed…

— Peter Singer

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

— Katy Perry

Couscous is not a grain. I repeat, it is not a grain. Much like its brother spaghetti and its sister ravioli, couscous…

— Harley Pasternak

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

— Truman Capote

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

— Roger Ailes

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only…

— Thomas Moore

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is…

— Eric Hoffer

I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my…

— Nicholas Kurti

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness,…

— Harvey Mackay

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses,…

— Jimmy Dean

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would…

— Mike Dirnt

Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may…

— Mark Bittman

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of…

— Patrick Stewart

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the…

— Dale Carnegie

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my…

— Donald Hall

Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato…

— Michael Pollan

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to…

— Anonymous

I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that…

— Deon Taylor

Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT…

— Robert Sutton Harrington

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny…

— Ernst Haeckel

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain…

— Paulo Coelho

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

— Garth Brooks

“If you throw your grain into the sea it will come back to you”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

— Constantine Manos

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

— Don Sutton

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Donna Mills

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

— Milton Berle