Grain Quotes - page 10

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 the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good. (James McAvoy)
I always seem to be singing against the grain. View quote
Morrissey
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people. View quote
Peter Singer
Every body, every soul is a Holy Sepulcher. Every seed of grain is a Holy Sepulchre; let us free it! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
With whisper of her mellowing grain, With treble of brook and bud and tree, Earth joys for ever to sustain The bass eternal of the sea. View quote
Roden Noel
I take everything with a grain of salt. View quote
Hope Solo
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. View quote
Dinah Craik
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Our preceptors were gentlemen as well as scholars. There was not a grain of sentimentalism in the institution; on the other hand, the place was permeated by a profound sense of justice. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I? View quote
Traci Bingham
Private shops [in Soviet Russia]... are taxed higher than co-operatives, are granted less favorable concessions, and enjoy a grudging legality. Nevertheless, their owners often make a great deal of money. The only explanation for it is the shortage of goods and the hunger for them. When one asks for the explanation of such a phenomenon in an agricultural country one is told: The government is exporting grain, the milk or egg price is too low and the peasants are holding back. (Dorothy Thompson)
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate-each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. View quote
Ken Wilber
Follow the grain in your own wood. View quote
Howard Thurman
life is only as good as the memories we makeSo long astoria i found a map to buried treasure and even if we come home empty handed well still have our stories of battle scars, pirate ships and wounded hearts, broken bones, and all the best of friendshipsand when this hourglass has filtered out its final grain of sand i raise my glass to the memories we had this is my wish this is my wish im takin back im takin them all back. View quote
Kris Roe
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 work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not? View quote
George Orwell
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. View quote
William Stoughton
See the kind seed-receiving earth To every grain affords a birth: On her no showers unwelcome fall, Her willing womb retains 'em all, And shall my Caelia be confined? No, live up to thy mighty mind, And be the mistress of Mankind! View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
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 be the end of him as a man. But if you can?t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality. (Boris Pasternak)
We call it a grain of sand but it calls itself neither grain nor sand. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture. View quote
Keanu Reeves
A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
The Farmer will never be happy again; He carries his heart in his boots; For either the rain is destroying his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots. View quote
A. P. Herbert