Grain Boundary Initiation

Famous quotes containing the words grain, boundary and/or initiation:

    “A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    ““Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.” All the people shall say, “Amen!””
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 27:17.

    “Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”
    —Philippe Ariés (20th century)