Grain Quotes

495 Grain quotes by 409 unique authors

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides… — George Carlin
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by… — George Orwell
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. — C.S. Lewis
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… — Primo Levi
I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why… — Megan Whalen Turner
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. — Homer
a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain… — Jenny Downham
The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years,… — Ray Bradbury
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands.… — Carrie Underwood
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to… — Richard Dawkins
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed… — Charles J. Shields
For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even… — Patrick O'Brian
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. — Rachel Carson
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape…… — Alan Moore
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. — Samuel Johnson
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would… — Boris Pasternak
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little… — Samuel Beckett
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite… — Ayi Kwei Armah

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