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Quotes About Cultivation

The kingdom mentality should be discovered, cultivated and consciously guide the way of life
~ Sunday Adelaja
The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations [marriage] is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.
~ John Stuart Mill
Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?
~ John Stuart Mill
Nothing is more natural to human beings, nor, up to a certain point in cultivation, more universal, than to estimate the pleasures and pains of others as deserving of regard exactly in proportion to their likeness to ourselves.
~ John Stuart Mill
What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the strong permanent leaven of intolerance in the feelings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country, it needs but little to provoke them into actively persecuting those whom they have never ceased to think proper objects of persecution.
~ John Stuart Mill
Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation.
~ John Stuart Mills
The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace
~ John Taliaferro
The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.
~ John Tyndall
Grace can thrive only in the heart that is being constantly prepared for the precious seeds of truth. The thorns of sin will grow in any soil; they need no cultivation; but grace must be carefully cultivated. The
~ Ellen G. White
Let us keep drawing near to God, and He will draw near to us. Then, as one, we shall reach upward to Him. The churches will be as gardens of the Lord, under His cultivation. God's people will be trees of righteousness, planted by the Lord, and watered with the river of life. [171]
~ Ellen Gould White
a plot that had become infertile could be built on, while a built-up area might have become well-manured and fertile from discarded waste and thus suitable for cultivation.
~ Else Roesdahl
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.
~ ballou hosea ii
Judged from a literary point of view, Nathan lacks style and cultivation. Like most young men, ambitious of literary fame, he disgorges to-day what he acquired yesterday.
~ balzac honore de ii
All gardeners can assume that every square inch of their garden soil contains weeds. Some of them may have been there for years, while others dropped or blew in only yesterday. The seeds that exist naturally in any soil are called the soil's seed bank.
~ Barbara Pleasant
This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Saewulf
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Education, in its largest sense, is a thing of great scope and extent. It includes the whole process by which a human being is formed to be what he is, in habits, principles, and cultivation of every kind.
~ barbauld anna letitia ii
We will accelerate our land redistribution program not only to redress a grave historical injustice but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
~ George MacDonald
The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.
~ George Orwell
arrachons, s'il se peut, au néant de l'oubli, le sillon de Germain, le fin laboureur
~ George Sand
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
~ Barack Obama
Till 1966 when the Green Revolution came to Punjab, nobody grew this crop. Only when farmers saw money in it, did they start rice cultivation.
~ Amarinder Singh
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
~ Angelina Grimke
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
~ William H. Wharton