Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like a Ferrari (Or your favorite car) it is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. ...

Pablo

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sa...

Sarah Parcak

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on...

Walter Payton

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness m...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave, no matter how big it is should stir enough fear inside me...

Malak El Halabi

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

Meriwether Lewis

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

Yolanda Adams

Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Sophie Swetchine

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of scien...

A Sand County Almanac

I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outs...

The Sand Child

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a pr...

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

If you're waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can't do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I'm the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels, who'll fall into your arms just because you saved me from an altern...

The Sands Of Time

Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your...

Visitation

Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.

Artificial Gods

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Buddha

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Margot Robbie

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

Mia Hamm