Cockles Quote by Mencius

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

— Austin O'Malley

Of evil grain, no good seed can come

— Proverb

I love a jar of cockles. I love anything in vinegar - beetroot, little silverskin onions, cornichons - I'm forever grazing on stuff like…

— Sara Cox

“Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not bring fruit…

— Seneca

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

— Steve Alten

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil

— Leah Griffith

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

— Ralph Fiennes

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult…

— Lucy Larcom

“There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain…

— David E. Cooper