Famous quotes containing the words grain and/or bullet:
“A peck of grain can make a friend; a bushel of grain can make a foe.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Consider his life which was valueless
In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
On the death of one so young and so silly
Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)