Quotes of: Grain Keyword

Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.

Yugoslavian

The torment of envy is like a grain of sand in the eye.

Chinese

He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand.

Japanese

Grain and graciousness grow on good ground.

German

Ants can attack with a grain of rice.

Malagasy

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all direct...

Farewell Summer

From the black earth there grows the finest grain.

Yiddish

We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky, and see faces, lost cities, defeated armies...

Constructions

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to ...

Christian Louboutin

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Robert Black

Writers start with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

Robert Black

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Traditional

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Unrequited

Sharing a secret with a rogue is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.

Ethiopian

Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Woo-jin Lee: Remember this: "Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same."

Oldboy

Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.

Chinese

I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a million others on a beach.

Dumb Jock

We have the ability to survive anything.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love