Cockles Quote by Austin O'Malley

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

— Steve Alten

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the…

— Mencius

“which turn into grains. After harvest time, these grains are removed from the stalks by threshing them. They are then hulled in a big…

— N.T. Alcuaz

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

— Rupert Hughes

“So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown…

— Virginia Woolf

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

— John Dewey

“you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to…

— Saint-Exupery Antoine

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have…

— Bible

Of evil grain, no good seed can come

— Proverb

The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject…

— Walter Raleigh

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

— Austin O'Malley

“MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it…

— James Allen