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Quotes about Grinding

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
— Proverbs 27:22
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
— Matthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”
— Luke 17:35
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
— Barack Obama
She began by reminding me of the scriptural injunction that the ox grinding the corn must not be kept from enjoying the grain. Did I think God felt less about His human workers? Hadn't I better examine myself to be sure I was not nursing a Sacrificial Spirit? Wasn't I claiming to depend upon God, but living as if my needs would be met by my own scrimping?
— Brother Andrew
When cats scratch the furniture, it's only because they're trying to sharpen their claws, which means they get so long that they want to grind them down. So if you trim their claws routinely, it helps tremendously.
— Beth Ostrosky Stern
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
— Henry Ward Beecher