Grain Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Work, Race

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

  Martin Luther

  Wheat, Wonder, Dies

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• 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.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Dust, Goddess

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, Shambhala Publications

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• Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Humility

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• Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

  Countee Cullen

  Heart, Giving, Lovers

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.179, Library of America

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• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

  Chris Crutcher

  Believe, Character, Redemption

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• For breakfast, I always have eggs - whole eggs. I think the fats are really important. I also like turkey bacon and really hearty whole-grain bread. I'm very picky about it. You need bread that's high in fiber and low in carbs. It's hard to find, but it's worth it.

  Summer Glau

  Thinking, Turkeys, Eggs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Fall, Perfect

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

  Garth Brooks

  Inspirational, Sometimes

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• The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Stones, Palaces

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• Grain is the brush stroke of photography.

  Constantine Manos

  Photography, Brushes, Brush Strokes

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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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• While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.

  Christie Rampone

  Snacks, Nuts, Cereal

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• The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Beach, Ocean

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• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Acting, Pearls, Sand

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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