Cockle Shells Quotes

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#2. 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

#3. O how beautiful is morning!
How the sunbeams strike the daisies
And the kingcups fill the meadow
Like a golden-shielded army
Marching to the uplands fair.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#4. One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

Kato Lomb

#5. There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.

Rainbow Rowell

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

William Beveridge

#7. I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

Philippe Falardeau