World In A Grain Of Sand Quotes

#1. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#2. You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

Carl Andre

#3. Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Peter Hammill

#4. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

#5. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.

From View With a Grain of Sand

Wislawa Szymborska

#6. The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.

Mahmud Shabistari

#8. To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

#9. Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#10. You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

Jonathan Freedman

#11. The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Christopher Paolini

#12. From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.

Mark Twain

#14. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

Ian McEwan

#15. a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'.

Marina Warner

#16. All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

John R.W. Stott