Grain Quotes - Page 20

• 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.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

  Randy Savage

  Desert, Sahara, Madness

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• Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

  Constantine Manos

  Photography, Brushes, Brush Strokes

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• Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Stones, Palaces

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• Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

  Homer

  Tales, Repeats

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.429, Penguin

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• 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 I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Listening

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• 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

  Expectations, Woods, True Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.248

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• 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 is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

  Primo Levi

  Order, Diversity, Growth

  Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken

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• But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stress, Adventure, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.171, Penguin

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• A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

  Charles Darwin

  Numbers, Balance, Individual

  Charles Darwin (2007). “On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.293, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

  Lyle Lovett

  Girl, Grandfather, Corn

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• Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.

  Daniel Starch

  Self, Facts, Merit

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• 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 has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

  Jenny Downham

  Moving, Years, Long

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

  Martin Luther

  Wheat, Wonder, Dies

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• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Ocean, Light, Wind

  Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”

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• You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

  Joseph Joubert

  Rolling Along, Pebbles, Streams

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• I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

  Amber Heard

  Standards Set, Gone, Amber

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• The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Years, People, Frost

  Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution

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• A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

  Daphne Oz

  Vegetables, Special, Fruit

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• Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

  Dogen

  Watches, Fields, Scarecrow

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• The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

  Stefano Langone

  Moving, Goal, Focus

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• We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

  Robert Collier

  Grain Of Salt, World, Hearing

  Robert Collier, Dr Robert C. Worstell (2014). “Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Oil, Car, Meat

  "Diet for a Small Planet". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 1971.

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• Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Care, Excitement

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.220, Harper Collins

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• Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Errors, Tree, Giants

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.293, Macmillan

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