A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation. - Saadi
His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. - William Shakespeare
Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian. - J.C. Ryle
You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your intuition - Gavin de Becker
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
The future belongs to nations who have grains not guns. - Dr. MS Swaminathan
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Jorge Luis Borges
Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it’s all over. Live before you die. - RVM
Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it’s all over. Live before you die. - - RVM
If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert. - Palle Oswald