Top 100 Grind Quotes
#1. You couldn't care about me. if you could hold me in your hand, me, you would be disgusted. You would throw me to the ground and grind me under your foot.
Stephenie Meyer
#2. His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all directions.
Sarah Noffke
#3. I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless ways. The key thing is to have a spice mill or a coffee grinder, and to keep your spices cold and in tightly lidded boxes.
Marcus Samuelsson
#4. Rise and grind ... the money ain't gonna wait for you while you sleep son.
Donnell Rawlings
#5. The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
Bryant McGill
#6. The rain feeds the seed, and the seed the mill. When the rain stops, the mill wheels stop - or, if they continue to turn, they grind despair for the man who owns them. My father owned them.
Beryl Markham
#7. I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.
Arnold Newman
#8. I knew a girl named Nikki I guess U could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine. She said "How'd U like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.
Prince
#9. Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.
Ray Lewis
#10. Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
Sylvia Plath
#11. When it comes to overcoming writing hurdles, getting sick is like suffering a review from a critic with an axe to grind; you can't let it get you down!
Max Hawthorne
#12. I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.
Will Smith
#13. Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it
Charles Spurgeon
#14. At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Al Franken
#15. He pushes my hips up a little and then says, Grind on me, baby. Grind on my face.
J.A. Huss
#16. When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.
Jerry Spinelli
#17. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#18. Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.
James Snyder
#19. The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.
Charles Dickens
#21. I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.
Nas
#23. Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
Kathleen Norris
#24. Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#25. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.
Emil Cioran
#26. Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
Bob Myers
#27. When you go home at night, let your home be the place where you disconnect from the world and the grind of your job. Limit your social-media usage. Surfing Facebook keeps you connected physically, relationally, and emotionally to friends, work, and responsibilities. In turn, you wear down.
Ted Cunningham
#28. The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Suheir Hammad
#29. Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#30. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#31. I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.
Robin Morgan
#32. Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.
Holly Black
#33. Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man.
Megan Whalen Turner
#34. Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence
Kevin Gates
#35. What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Guy Kawasaki
#36. You could never understand why I grind like I do
Makiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do
Nicki Minaj
#37. When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#38. There's just one move a man needs to know in order to rock it on the dance floor."
"Yeah? What's the move?"
"STAG"
"What's stag?"
"The only one of Logan's crazy acronyms I live my life by-STAG. Stand there and grind.
Elle Kennedy
#39. The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.
Brian Blessed
#40. But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium.
Donna Tartt
#41. I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.
Adam Brody
#42. New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.
Kurt Braunohler
#43. Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
Horace
#44. Some rather seek up high
Than dig and grind that inner truth
Saul Williams
#45. Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added. The
Patricia C. Wrede
#46. The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.
Greg Iles
#47. Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.
Madonna Ciccone
#48. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.
Jonathan LaPoma
#49. As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.
Robert Draper
#50. Grind the faces of the poor.
Isaiah
#51. She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#52. Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
Terry Waite
#53. We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#54. The other way that rocks are smoothed is by grinding against each other. God has placed us among people who manage to rub us the wrong way. I am sure that you may feel this way about more than one person in your life. I am convinced we will always be given someone to grind on us!
Andrew Mullek
#55. We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.
Richard Chandler
#56. When adjusting your grinder, make sure the grinder is running. This is because the grinding burrs need to move closer for a finer grind. Since coffee is actually a very hard material, if you adjust it with it off, you can stress the adjustment mechanism and actually damage the machine!
Luca Vincenzo
#57. It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.
Mark Cuban
#58. The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses.
Chris Matakas
#59. The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.
Rory Vaden
#60. People who want to study religion usually have an ax to grind. They either want to defend their favorite religion from its critics or want to demonstrate the irrationality and futility of religion, and this tends to infect their methods with bias.
Daniel C. Dennett
#61. People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.
David Wong
#63. Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.
Ralph Reese
#64. One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.
Louis Agassiz
#65. I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Emily Bronte
#66. The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
Bill Nye
#67. There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.
Andy Roddick
#69. About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Ernie Pyle
#70. I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.
Mary Howard
#71. Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad)
Hustle dig
Grind push
Run fast
Change pivot
Chase pull
Aim shoot
Work smart
Live smarter
Play hard
Practice harder
Kwame Alexander
#72. Scriptures are as 'helping problem'. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
Dada Bhagwan
#73. It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.
Patrick O'Brian
#74. Marveling yet again at the way the very same things that cause him to grind his teeth-with a different lens, a tighter focus, better lighting-look like love.
Maud Casey
#75. As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
#76. Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska
#77. You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
John Calipari
#78. What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.
Ray Lewis
#79. I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.
Russ Rose
#80. To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.
Ole Hallesby
#81. Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies
Scott Westerfeld
#82. My 'Moment of TRU' - I live, I love, I let be. I grind, I do my own thing, I stay in my own lane. Ain' got no worries because God is my source. I'm not perfect, but by grace I get better with every day God gives me.
LaNina King
#83. Poverty's child -
he starts to grind the rice,
and gazes at the moon.
Matsuo Basho
#84. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
Audre Lorde
#85. A purpose is more like a positive daily-grind, with gratitude and a smile.
Bryant McGill
#86. Our connection didn't have the bandwidth to sustain the pain buried far enough in our past to cause the grind of our present. His past belonged to her, even though she'd cut the line, taking it with her, tugging at him, leaving no one else for him to give it to.
C.D. Reiss
#87. You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place ...
Dr. Seuss
#88. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#89. -Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.
Jonathan Kellerman
#90. But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind
Eminem
#91. Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.
Tom Hodgkinson
#93. Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Simon Baker
#94. Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.
Kathleen Norris
#95. When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.
Donald Bradman
#96. I don't want my children to obey only because they fear consequences or worry that Mom will lose it. I want to know their hearts understand and grasp the joy to be found in doing the right thing. This requires parenting through the daily grind with a long-term mentality.
Courtney Defeo
#97. Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.
Paul Pierce
#98. As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
John Battelle
#99. Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. Coal cars grind past in the wet dark. Machinery hums in the distance: pistons throbbing, belts turning. Smoothly. Madly.
Anthony Doerr
#100. When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Princess Anne
