Dust Grain

Famous quotes containing the words dust and/or grain:

“He was a superior man. He did not value his bodily life in comparison with ideal things. He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. For once we are lifted out of the trivialness and dust of politics into the region of truth and manhood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine.”
—Chinese proverb.