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

- David F. Houston

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

- Mencius

It's all about salsa with grain chips, tofu, turkey slices, hummus, and coconut water.

- Laurieann Gibson

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

- John Buford

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

- John Boyega

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.

- J. C. Watts

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

- Jose Marti

I take everything with a grain of salt.

- Hope Solo

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

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

- Gena Showalter

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

- Amber Heard

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

- Donna Mills

Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.

- David Perlmutter

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

- David Perlmutter

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

- Chris Daughtry

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.

- Curt Schilling

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?

- Craig Venter

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

- Buddha

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.

- Ann Cotton

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

- Anne-Marie Duff