Top 121 Grain Quotes

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

It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don’t have that grain in you, it will not happen.

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.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

I literally went cold turkey on carbs, didn’t have a grain of rice. No pasta, no bread, no booze – I didn’t get on that for 10 weeks!

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

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.

For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn’t play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn’t play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.

I was a hard-workin’ little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin’ cotton, shockin’ grain, cuttin’ wheat, loadin’ wheat, choppin’ cotton, cleanin’ chicken houses, milkin’ cows, plowin’.

There’s nothing quite like being able to get into the minds of other people, and figure out how they work, and what makes other people tick. And going against your own grain sometimes, to push yourself into places you wouldn’t go emotionally.

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that’s all. It was part of our job.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

Michael Watson is a part of me. It’s in my head, it’s in my grain. There are scars within me. Therefore, those scars are what allows me to steer and protect other fighters.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

I like to go against the grain, against what’s out there. Every day is like a challenge.

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

I could have took the easy way and just been a cowboy, looking good, trying to make my money off Hank Williams and being this clean-cut guy. But I always wanted to be myself and go against the grain.

I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

In my position, I’m always going to get a bit of flak. I take it with a grain of salt.

I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what’s offered – and that’s a shame.

The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.

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

I take everything with a grain of salt.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

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.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us… I take it with a grain of salt. I go, ‘Okay, they didn’t even try.’

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they’re ready to own what they say. Because there’s a price to pay when you say something that’s against the grain that is not correct.

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

The whole ‘Secret’ sensation really rubbed me the wrong way; I just don’t believe in it. The grain of truth is that what you focus on you’ll get more of, and that’s got to do with the reticular activating system in your brain, not ‘The Secret.’

Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee’s, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, ‘Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.’

Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly compete with growing food crops: crop residues, food processing waste, low-quality grain, and controlled grazing by ruminants.

It’s such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don’t want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you’re never going to please everybody.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they’re going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

We need these figures who don’t exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I just have to go against the grain. I mean, I can be objective and do what I need to do, handle my everyday living, follow directions, etc. But there’s something that’s always been attracted to that taboo. It’s been like that since I was a child.

We not afraid, we outspoken, we go against the grain. I do love that about our generation.

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

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that’s perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

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

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

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

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

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.