Cockle Quotes

#1. He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.

John Bunyan

#2. O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Hugh Latimer

#3. And she[Aphrodite]mourned Nerites' loss not because Nerites was her paramour but because she was her mentor.It was, strangely enough,poor Nerites who had taught her all she had known about sex & love until then. For how was a young Goddess, who was born from a cockle, to know about such things?

Nicholas Chong

#4. A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

William Beveridge

#5. Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells,
And marigolds all in a row.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. The sand was hard-packed and solid and wet, speckled all over with cockle shells in colors and patterns of such profusion and variety that they must have given the first Dutchmen the idea to go out into the sea and bring back precious things from afar.

Neal Stephenson

#7. My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

Janet Skeslien Charles

#8. If the Emyn Muil lie before us, then we can abandon these cockle-boats, and strike westward and southward, until we come to the Entwash and cross into my own land.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. 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

#10. She'd felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

Marie Rutkoski

#11. GenXers are doing the quiet work of keeping America from sucking.

Jeff Gordinier

#12. Professionally, I have no age.

Kathleen Turner

#13. The whole thing was silly," I said. "Please tell her there's no need to apologize. We set ourselves up for this. I was never going to be the guy in her head. And she was never going to be the girl in mine. And that's okay. Seriously.

Rachel Cohn

#14. For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Zoe Kravitz

#15. Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

Michael Chabon

#16. Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

Wil Wheaton

#17. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

Rasmus Lerdorf

#18. Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

Jeremy Bentham

#19. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. The

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#21. My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#22. We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson