In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isnt whether our food has been modified, but how.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
. . . like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?
I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better. " "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said. " That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax. " "I am sure you can arrange an appointment. " "I am sure I can too.
Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.
Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh so mellow. Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow. Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow. Try to remember and if you remember then follow follow.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.
I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.