Cabbage Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image “All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cabbage Children Mother Parenting Thinking World
“An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. — Lucinda Roy Copy Share Image
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The only vegetable I liked when I was little was broccoli, which I called trees. — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
