Grain Quotes

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

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

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I take everything with a grain of salt.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.