Grain Quotes - Page 19

• It all comes down to this:
  If you want one year of happiness, grow grain
  If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees
  If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

  Harvey Mackay

  Leadership, Years, People

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Littles, Lost

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.86, Broadview Press

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• You, methinks you think you love me well;
  For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
  Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
  Not ever be too curious for a boon,
  Too prurient for a proof against the grain
  Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
  Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
  Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
  But work as vassal to the larger love,
  That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Love You, Mean

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

  F. F. Bruce

  Prayer, Attitude, Persistence

  Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.364, InterVarsity Press

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• Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

  Thomas Jones

  Children, Fall, Opportunity

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• Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Lying, Ocean, Heart

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Rain, Fall, Dust

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• We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

  Richard Rohr

  Mistake, Healing, Cutting

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Beautiful, Kings, Queens

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• You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

  Alexander Pope

  Thanksgiving, Littles, Patient

  Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

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• The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Night, Light

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann

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• Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Girl, Eye, Dark

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.

  Hope Solo

  Grain Of Salt, Salt, One Step At A Time

  "Hope Solo dealing with the stars" by Elizabeth Merrill, www.espn.com. September 26, 2011.

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

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Turkeys, People

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• But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those.

  Robert Cheeke

  Nuts, Stronger, Fruit

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• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  Keanu Reeves

  Artist, People, Choices

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• 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?

  Traci Bingham

  Thinking, Vegetables, Years

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

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Responsibility, Vegetarianism, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Baby, Reality, Vegetarianism

  "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.

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• Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

  Rene Daumal

  Cutting, Men, Errors

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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