Top 728 Grain Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

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

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

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

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

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

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

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

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

I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

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

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.

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

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

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

Follow the grain in your own wood.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

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

Me, I like to go against the grain.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

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

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.