Quotes about Grain
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
— DH Lawrence
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
— Khalil Gibran
I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
— Henry David Thoreau
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
— Marcus Aurelius
Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.
— Virginia Woolf
what does old Donne say? "God knows in what part of the world every grain of every man's dust lies
— Dorothy Sayers
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky