Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile…

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And…

— Lucy Alibar

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be…

— Ranbir Kapoor

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

— Jane Addams

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

— Plato

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

— Dalai Lama

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,

— Mirabeau B. Lamar

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It…

— Tim Gunn

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be…

— Stephen Lang

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the…

— Noam Chomsky

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

— Richard Koch

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years…

— Zoketsu Norman Fischer