Weed Quotes - Page 19

• What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Bags, Comedy

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Men, Names

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Nature, Revenge

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Garden, Practice

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

  Jim Rohn

  Garden, Long, Ifs

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• It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.

  Luis Valdez

  Responsibility, Men, Garden

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.

  Anna Lappe

  Technology, Skills, Gmos

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

  Waverley Root

  Cereal, Oats, Rags

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Lilies, Sonnet

  Sonnet 94

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wall, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Wicked, Noble

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.137, Advaita Ashrama

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• I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, I really believe that they hurt your body, deplete your energy.

  Christofer Drew

  Hurt, Believe, Beer

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

  Sylvia Browne

  Fear, Rip, Creativity

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Order, Way, Harvest

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• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Rain, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Marijuana, Slavery

  "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

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• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Parenting, Garden

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• The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

  James Joyce

  Mouths, Cylinders, Engaged

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.546, First Avenue Editions

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• Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Creativity, Thinking

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• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Jobs, People

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• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  Calvin Trillin

  Long, People, Campaigns

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• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Focus, Needs

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• I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

  Martha Smith

  Nature, Marijuana, Garden

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• We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

  Josh Radnor

  Flower, Water, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

  Kevin Nealon

  Jobs, People, Appreciate

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