Grain Quotes - Page 29

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

  Bernard Hopkins

  Careers, Work Out, Want

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  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  Carrie Underwood

  Climbing, Mountain, Sometimes

  Song: So Small, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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• I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.

  Mark Bittman

  Ice Cream, Cereal, Bars

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• I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

  James McAvoy

  Boys, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 15, 2011.

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

  Anjelica Huston

  America, Age, Grain Of Salt

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

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• Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

  Alton Brown

  Believe, Waste, Terrible

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• We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Fields, Different

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Beach, Stars, Numbers

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.221, Ballantine Books

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• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Baby, Men, Support

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Horse, Moving, Eye

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• A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Inspiration, Devotion, Valuable

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• Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Nuts, Vegetables, Guilt

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• I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

  Ken Wilber

  Devil, Criticism, Wish

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• Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.256, Penguin

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Try to remember the kind of September
  When life was slow and oh
  so mellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When grass was green and grain was yellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When you were a tender and callow fellow.
  Try to remember and if you remember
  then follow
  follow.

  Tom Jones

  Yellow, September 11, Trying

  "Song: 'Try to Remember'". 1960.

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• An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Two

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• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

  Lester R. Brown

  Sight, People, Water

  "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Hope, Spring

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• Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

  Grant Morrison

  Country, Beach, Ocean

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• Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.

  Oscar Romero

  Effort, Wheat, Demand

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• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Car, Effort

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• How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

  Philip Pullman

  Life Is Hard, Doubt, Spirit

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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