Grain Quotes

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. (William Blake)
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. View quote
Mickey Spillane
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. View quote
José Martí
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. View quote
Alan Perlis
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 other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. View quote
Truman Capote
There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. View quote
Og Mandino
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. (Tom Stoppard)
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. View quote
William Shakespeare
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. View quote
William Goldman
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture; especially, a bread grain; next in value to bread is oil. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people. View quote
Augustus
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . View quote
Marcus Aurelius
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 the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. View quote
George Carlin
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? View quote
Charles Lindbergh
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 could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor. (Kate Beckinsale)
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. View quote
Ramakrishna
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy. View quote
Emil Cioran
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre." View quote
L. Frank Baum
We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. 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 is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. View quote
Neil Gaiman