Grain Quotes
495 Grain quotes by 409 unique authors
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask…
— Unknown Author
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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death…
— Charles Dickens
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I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
— Bernard Hopkins
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Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
— Carrie Underwood
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I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better…
— Mark Bittman
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I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against…
— James McAvoy
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Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.
— Anjelica Huston
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Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.
— Alton Brown
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We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society…
— Neil Gaiman
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
— Carl Sagan
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I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?
— Les Claypool
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During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with…
— Patrick Stewart
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Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.
— Bob Harper
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I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher…
— Beyonce Knowles
Who Wrote These Grain Quotes
409 authors contributed a total of 495 Grain Quotes, led by these top contributors: