Grain Quotes

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

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.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

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 .

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

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

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.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

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.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

[Heihei] a really dumb rooster. You have to just turn the rooster so his head ends up hitting the grain. He's not smart enough to eat.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.