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Small grains, big meaning

These grain quotes play with the word's double meaning, from advice given generously but taken sparingly to consciously going against the grain in one's own work.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Give
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Quotes by Morrissey

Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Mikhail Kalashnikov

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Quotes by Jose Marti

Nov 07, 2020

I take everything with a grain of salt.

Quotes by Hope Solo

Ground
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Nov 07, 2020

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Eat
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Nov 07, 2020

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

Quotes by David Perlmutter

Others turn literal, recalling a shortage of mills that led to building a wooden one for flour, while one memorable line claims a single grain of poetry can flavor an entire century, close to Nature quotes.

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