Top 73 Millet Quotes
#1. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
#2. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin
#3. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides
Judy Grahn
#4. Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill Bryson
#6. To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.
Metrodorus Of Chios
#7. A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#8. The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.
Jules Breton
#9. Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.
Richard Engel
#10. 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.
Christopher Moore
#11. The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
Bill Bryson
#12. American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
Camille Paglia
#13. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.
Marc Chagall
#14. Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable
Norman Davies
#15. Freudian Slip: When You Mean One Thing And Say Your Mother.
Lydia Millet
#16. Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.
Lydia Millet
#17. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.
Jean-Francois Millet
#19. We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.
Lydia Millet
#22. If you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being ... and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up.
Lydia Millet
#23. Slowly, she made her way out of the water and stood for a moment on the shore, looking out at the vast expanse of the briny deep. She smiled. This had been her baptism, she reckoned, and with a certainty in her soul that could only come from God Himself, she knew that she would begin her life anew.
Paula W. Millet
#24. If we are serious about climbing to higher ground, we will be found in church every Sunday - attending all of our meetings, partaking of the sacrament, participating in Sunday School, and contributing to the spirit found in Relief Society, Primary, and priesthood meetings.
Robert L. Millet
#25. Valor represents bravery and strength of character, boldness, and fortitude - all qualities that prepare a person to act responsibly in times of need, of challenge, or of danger.
Robert L. Millet
#26. Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
Jean-Francois Millet
#27. A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
Jean-Francois Millet
#28. We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.
Lydia Millet
#29. Oh how the world reflected you in its unending streams of atoms, churning atoms out of which significance beamed
significance, but not purpose.
Lydia Millet
#30. Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
Lydia Millet
#31. One man's weakness is another man's mercy.
Lydia Millet
#32. I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.
Jean-Francois Millet
#33. Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.
Robert L. Millet
#34. We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ...
Lydia Millet
#35. Life is amazing, don't wreck yourself trying to figure it out, cause its just that simple.
Alysha Millet
#36. The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.
Lydia Millet
#37. It means nothing to cry, all you can you is fly, expand your wings take flight, and never return.
Alysha Millet
#38. What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.
Lydia Millet
#39. Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.
Lydia Millet
#40. We cannot enjoy power in the priesthood until we learn to act by faith.
Robert L. Millet
#42. Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)
Lydia Millet
#43. The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
Lydia Millet
#44. Life can be a mystery, love can be a mistake, laughter can turn into tears, but these are chances we'll have to take.
Alysha Millet
#45. We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.
Lydia Millet
#46. We may go up, we may go down, we may do a 360 but still find ourselves here, on safe ground.
Alysha Millet
#47. It is said that the future narrows once we cease to believe it is eternal...
Catherine Millet
#48. Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term, explained the biologist.
Lydia Millet
#49. I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.
Catherine Millet
#50. It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
Jean-Francois Millet
#51. The Lord needs us. He needs us to be knowledgeable, dependable, and competent disciples. We need to know not only that the gospel is true but we need to know the gospel, better than we do right now. We need to be in the right place at the right time. We will thereby become the right person.
Robert L. Millet
#52. Then he would get into a plane and leave the field wide open; the field was crammed with paralegals, all of them stoutly armed with condoms.
Lydia Millet
#53. Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.
Lydia Millet
#54. Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...
Lydia Millet
#55. President Howard W. Hunter explained that the gospel of Jesus Christ, which gospel we teach and the ordinances of which we perform, is a global faith with an all-embracing message. It is neither confined nor partial nor subject to history or fashion.
Robert L. Millet
#58. The elect of God are those who hear the voice of the Lord, do not harden their hearts, gather with the Lord and his Church, magnify their callings, and, because of their purity, abide the day of the Savior's second coming (D&C 29:7; 33:6; 35:21; 84:34; Moses 7:62).
Robert L. Millet
#59. I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.
Lydia Millet
#60. The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.
Jean-Francois Millet
#61. In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
Raphael Millet
#62. Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.
Lydia Millet
#63. We need people like you, Dobson," said Gina. "In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.
Lydia Millet
#64. Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
Lydia Millet
#65. Aw, group hug! No one's a mindless robot anymore. Score!
Lydia Millet
#66. It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
Lydia Millet
#67. Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.
Lydia Millet
#68. To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).
Robert L. Millet
#69. Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry?
Terrance Lane Millet
#70. Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.
Lydia Millet
#71. Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
Robert L. Millet
#72. If there is no heart in it, there is no hole through it.
Alysha Millet
#73. A daughter you were, a mother you will be, the things you've done, are the things you will see.
Alysha Millet
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