Quotes of: Grain-of-sand Keyword

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital re...

T. Boone Pickens

Lester: [at Kathy's car] So, how's the El Rancho? Kathy: I'm not there anymore. I'm staying at the Bonneville now. Lester: I don't know it. Kathy: [dryly] You're looking at it.

House of Sand and Fog

Nadi: [to Massoud, in Farsi] I didn't come to America to live and walk the streets like a filthy Arab! I came to America to LIVE!

House of Sand and Fog

Hotel Security: Can I help you? Behrani: My car is parked here. You asked yesterday also.

House of Sand and Fog

Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds—what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against my skin, face, and hair—wearing me dow...

Eluding Reality

See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated ...

Boy's Life

I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. I was a fish who couldn’t breathe in air and had to stay in dark waters forever while he was a majestic bird who soared so high that he barely ...

Aleena Yasin

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing a mountain to reach the moon. Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of w...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

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

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

I take everything with a grain of salt.

Hope Solo

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do ...

I Think of You: Stories

The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.

Cryptonomicon

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

A Sand County Almanac

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

The Prayer Box

You haven’t lived until you’ve wiped your ass with a pile of sand. Toilet paper doesn’t measure eternity the way the sands of time do.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.

Wind, Sand and Stars