Sediment Grain Size

Famous quotes containing the words grain and/or size:

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

“It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing much the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.”
—Alex Atkinson, British humor writer. repr. In Present Laughter, ed. Alan Coren (1982)