Weed Quotes - Page 23

• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rocks, Hands, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!

  David Spade

  Summer, Long, Tree

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Growth, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

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• Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

  John Dryden

  Men, Fire, Desire

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.305-9.

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• Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.

  Tiffany Baker

  Flower, Shadow Of Death, Hands

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• Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

  Bill Vaughan

  Garden, Gardener, Ifs

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• Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

  John Keats

  Flower, Men, Soil

  John Keats (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Keats. A New Edition”, p.33

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• Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Giving Up, Heart, Mean

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Art, Revenge, Men

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Confession, Compost, Garden Of Eden

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare ...”

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• You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.

  David Bayles

  Vision, Feedback, Good Work

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.26, Image Continuum Press

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• The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

  Alexander Gould

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Stupid, Government, Hands

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• Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Gardening, Grows

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale

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• That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it
  I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked
  Drink my beer and smoke my weed
  But my good friends is all I need
  Pass out at three wake up at ten
  Go out to eat then do it again
  Man I love college.

  Asher Roth

  Girl, Crazy, Party

  "Song: 'I Love College'". 2009.

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• Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed,
  Which oft offends the very idol-vice,
  Whose shrine it would perfume.

  Elijah Fenton

  Idols, Vices, Shrines

  "Mariamne: A Tragedy" by Elijah Fenton, (Act IV, Scene V, p. 46), 1723.

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• Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Country, Men, Envy

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• Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

  Caryl Rivers

  Guilt, Age, Unexpected

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

  Conor Oberst

  Powerful, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Beach, Flower, Hair

  Gretel Ehrlich (1994). “A match to the heart”, Pantheon

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• Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Flower, Differences, True And False

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”

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• I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

  Luther Burbank

  Flower, Pride, Men

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• It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

  Warren Farrell

  Teaching, Princess, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

  David Gemmell

  Vegetables, Problem, Patches

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1985.

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