Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

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

I've put one foot before another and the years have passed, the time marked by late rent payments and the appearance of wrinkles - tiny ones, on the corners of my eyes. They are a reminder of my youth, and of the hourglass that we all live in, grains...

The Dumont Diaries

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you wi...

Miss Lonelyhearts

At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read th...

Nema Al-Araby

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

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

Tongan

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

The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell of the terrible desert life, the stillness, harshness, and death. I lay against the cold sand, tiny grains dancing...

The First Noble Truth

‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, bu...

Peer-e-Kamil

A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, li...

Tiger Lily

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

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

Chinese

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

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

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

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

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

Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

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

The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.

The Sun Also Rises