A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated enriched heart.

So far as it depends on the course of this government our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated if capital and population increased more food would be required and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand there still exists in many parts of the U.S. if not nationally an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.