Grain Quotes

495 Grain quotes by 409 unique authors

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and… — Alexander Pope
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. — Charles Spurgeon
My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance… — Megan Whalen Turner
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we… — Richard Rohr
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the… — George Orwell
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and… — Thomas Moore
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to… — Robert M. Pirsig
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it… — Carrie Underwood
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all… — George Eliot
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the… — Truman Capote
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -… — Robert W. Service
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing… — Leo Tolstoy
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… — Flannery O'Connor
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual… — Kurt Vonnegut
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of… — David Almond
As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass,… — Dan Brown
Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror,… — D. H. Lawrence
For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts… — Saint Augustine
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty… — Oswald Chambers
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed… — Leo Tolstoy
A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground,… — Richard J. Foster
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep… — Edgar Allan Poe
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole… — Ramakrishna
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is… — Leo Tolstoy

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