Famous quotes containing the words grain and/or ear:
“Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine.”
—Chinese proverb.
“And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)