Weed Quotes - Page 7

• I don't mind being an advocate for weed. It's not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There's no reason it shouldn't be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer's probably in cannabis-who knows?

  Method Man

  Cancer, Thinking, Alcohol

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• I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

  Marilyn Buck

  Red, Poppies, Glad

  Marilyn Buck (2012). “Inside/Out: Selected Poems”, p.56, City Lights Publishers

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• The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.

  Thomas D

  Past, Ravens, House

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• Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Giving, Infidelity, Return

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• The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.
  
  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Flower, Today

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• I have used cannabis all over the world.

  Rick Steves

  World, Cannabis, Used

  "Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions". interview with Michael Goldstein, www.laweekly.com. April 12, 2012.

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• When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Fields, Palaces

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• What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.

  Paul Driessen

  Animal, Air, Differences

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• FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

  Alan Perlis

  Flower, Computer, Programming

  Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”

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• What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?

  Steve Doocy

  Wheels, Behinds

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• The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Garden, Errors

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• Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  Kary Mullis

  Fashion, Art, Years

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• The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

  Henry Ford

  Apples, Sawdust, Fuel

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• We're just a weed in the universe

  Karl Pilkington

  Universe

  Podcast Series 5 Episode 4,

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• All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

  Foxy Brown

  Girl, Baby, Father

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• I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Marijuana, Trying

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Years, Mushrooms, Half

  "EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Melissa Joan Hart's Tell-All Book: Inside Her Secret Partying and Drug Use" by Chantal Waldholz, www.lifeandstylemag.com. February 5, 2014.

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• It's funny when I get recognized on the train. People either say ‘I love your show, dude’ or ‘Hey, where do you buy good weed?’

  Hunter Parrish

  Love You, People, Hey

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• Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Moving, Opportunity, People

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• Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

  Nick Cannon

  Kids, Marijuana, Rocks

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• Roll the weed up
  Somebody turn the beat up
  While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up
  Mac game so cold make yo nose runny
  Mac game so cold takin' hoes money

  Mac Dre

  Games, Feet, Hoe

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• Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?

  Michel'le

  Running, Dream, Kids

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  How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

  Margaret Sanger

  People, Feminism, Humans

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Intelligent, Giving, May

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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• When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Rose, Singing

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.71, Penguin

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