Grain Quotes

495 Grain quotes by 409 unique authors

Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each… — Vachel Lindsay
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to… — Wilferd Peterson
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the… — Anthony de Mello
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain. — Walter Scott
It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or… — Martin Luther
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she… — Morgan Llywelyn
In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar.… — Jorge Cruise
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard of Clairvaux
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our heart, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.… — Tabatha Coffey
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same… — Mencius
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;… We are… — Heber C. Kimball
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die… — Jeremy Rifkin
It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain… — Ed Begley, Jr.
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest… — Jonathan Kozol
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the… — Ramakrishna
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.… — Carl Jung
While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a… — Christie Rampone
The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean… — Frederick Lenz

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