Grain Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

  Vik Muniz

  Fall, Mean, Reality

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• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  Steve Miller

  Art, Simple, Appreciate

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, College, Wind

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• Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Eight, Cereal

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

  Robin Williams

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.

  Dexter Scott King

  Passion, Past, Vegetables

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• I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Clouds, Sight, Air

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• I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

  Khalil

  Sea, World, Infinite

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• When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

  Philip Wollen

  Country, Children, Food

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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

  Howard Pyle

  Flood, Wells

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.29, Booklassic

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• Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.

  Martiros Saryan

  Flower, Race, Joy

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• Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

  Anton Corbijn

  Perfection, Want, Stuff

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• With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Moving, Mountain

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• I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

  John Calvin

  Common Sense, Found, Jew

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.175, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

  Arthur Machen

  Stars, Lying, Soul

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.102, 谷月社

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• I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Sole, Objects

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.

  Stella Chess

  Daughter, Mistake, Mean

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• The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.

  Chrissy Costanza

  Past, Lines, Boat

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.

  Michael Pitt

  Kids, Ink, Different

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Rain, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1870). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.296, Adam, Stevenson

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• All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.

  Michael Specter

  Corn, Crops, Mankind

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• Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.

  Sarah Fielding

  Beautiful, Men, Looks

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• The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

  Justus von Liebig

  Flesh, Fodder, Manure

  Justus von Liebig (1863). “The natural laws of husbandry: Edited by John Blyth”, p.389

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• If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Democracy, Bags

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.82, Routledge

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