Grain – Quotes

They defended the grains

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. Gamal Abdel Nasser

I won’t say my nutrition is perfect. If I’m at a restaurant and there’s fresh pasta on the menu, I’m going to order it. At home, though, I avoid grains and do a lot of the cooking to control what our family eats. Gabrielle Reece

The idea that a

The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as … Read more

It’s tough. We don’t

It’s tough. We don’t have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don’t get to see any consistency in terms of what’s happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up. Eva LaRue

Mankind . . .

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 … Read more

As our mother-earth is

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. Ernst Haeckel

A grain of sand

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. Ernest Renan

Here we grow the

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves. Ernest Poole

Dying was nothing and

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with … Read more

It goes against an

It goes against an artist’s grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age… What work will get done in the remaining time? …Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end? Eric Maisel