Grain Quotes - Page 26

• A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Gold, Surface

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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

  John Cheever

  Heart, Self, Sand

  1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

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• Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

  Lierre Keith

  Sugar, Enough, Opioids

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.152, PM Press

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• Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man?' But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Children, Gymnastics, Men

  "The Spirit Of Dead Can Dance". Interview with J. Poet, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

  Tori Amos

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• Beauty alters the grain of reality.

  Donna Tartt

  Reality

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.574, Hachette UK

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• A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Notebook, Writing, Gay

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• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Animal, Agriculture

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, People, Giving

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

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• Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

  Kaspar Hauser

  Gratitude, Wine, Water

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• Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Soul, Growing

  Anthony Burgess (1982). “Here comes everybody: an introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader”, Hamlyn

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• I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Saint, Fruit, Deny

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• Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

  Maxine

  Grain Of Salt, Margarita, Accompany

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• According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.

  Richard Armitage

  Ideas, Iraq, Special

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• Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

  Mark Sisson

  Giving Up, Health, Inspire

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• The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

  Homer

  Men, Light, Sea

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Weight, Lessons, Execution

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Good Life, Action, Good Work

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• There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Believe, Men

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• In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

  Jorge Cruise

  Our World, Black, Weight

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Butterfly, Bird, Together

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, Making A Difference, Thorns

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Effort, Groups

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