Weed Quotes - Page 15

• A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

  Tim Smit

  Men, Garden, Arrogance

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• Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

  Lewis Gannett

  Drinking, Eye, Garden

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• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

  Plutarch

  Hard Work, Garden, Self Improvement

  "Life of Caius Marcus Coriolanus" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 897), 1922.

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• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

  Robert Fulghum

  Opportunity, Garden, Hands

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• You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Positive, Attitude, Reality

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• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Flower, Giving

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

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• Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Flower, Finest

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• Please don't bite baby,
  I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady...
  She let me hide my weed in her titties

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Rap, White

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• No question I would speed for cracks and weed
  The combination made my eyes bleed.

  Raekwon

  Rap, Eye, Cracks

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• Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

  Rumi

  Garden, Long, Rose

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• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Garden, Heaven, Suffering

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.6, TAN Books

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• I'm all about that money, dress like everyday sunny, rolling weed like a Marley, smile like everything funny.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Everyday, Rolling

  Song: Telescope

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• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Opportunity, Garden, Rose

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• When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

  Horace Walpole

  Garden, People, Mind

  Letter to Lady Ailesbury, 10 July 1779, in 'Letters'

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• Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Flower, Earth, Golden

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• I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good

  Kevin Smith

  Kids, Marijuana, Drug

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• I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Garden, Names, Plant

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Deeds, Turns

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.168

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• Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

  George Matthew Adams

  Life, Character, Garden

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• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive.
  If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100?
  If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Strong, People, Society

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• Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Nature, Garden, Years

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Monday, Adversity

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Hands, Intellectual

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• Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Flower, Reflection, Picks

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2017

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• It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Happiness, Numbers, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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