Quotes About Cockles

#1. It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.

Misha Collins

#2. Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.

George R R Martin

#3. Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

Val McDermid

#4. The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Mencius

#5. I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Mackenzie Davis

#6. Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.

Edward Abbey

#7. Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Jonathan Swift

#8. And later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

Sue Barker

#9. Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.

Philip Hensher

#10. They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi.

George R R Martin

#11. If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

Kate Christensen

#12. 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

#13. Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience

Will Self

#14. This party was not in the least like a party a wolf would throw. For one thing, no one had shown up smashed. For another thing, even though it started an hour ago, still no one was smashed.

Kristen Ashley

#15. but I want you to put him down.

Plato

#16. Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, and therein stay.

Mary Butts

#17. If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Fidel Castro