Quotes About Being Cultivated

#1. How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

#2. Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#3. I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Gene Weingarten

#4. I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

James Balog

#5. I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

Hunter Hayes

#6. An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written.

M.J. Stoddard

#7. We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Immanuel Kant

#8. I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

Jamie Waylett

#9. It's hard not to be into a girl who tells you she loves your cock repeatedly as she comes.

Helena Hunting

#10. The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

William Shakespeare

#12. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

C.D. Darlington

#13. What I like best is to notice something I never noticed before.

Marty Rubin

#14. To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

Brooklyn Sudano

#15. One thing being crowned a queen in Wonderland has taught me: Power is impotent unless it's cultivated with risks.

A.G. Howard

#16. It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time.

Michael Lewis

#17. Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

#18. Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.

Albert Perry

#19. That is the definition of a true murderer. One that considers his actions, has the mental capacity to understand the consequences, and chooses to kill.

Destiny Booze

#20. If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.

Rick Wright

#22. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

George Carlin

#23. Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

Sri Chinmoy

#24. If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

Boris Sidis

#25. That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

Frank Sinatra

#26. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Johann Gottfried Herder

#27. Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Herman Melville

#28. I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

Noah Hathaway