Weed Quotes - Page 28

• The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Making A Difference, Thorns, Helping

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

  William Zinsser

  Fighting, Clutter, Behinds

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Summer, Believe, School

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• If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Strong, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.346, Yale University Press

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• The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

  Mao Zedong

  Socialism, Crops, Capitalism

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• I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

  Moby

  New York, Growing Up, Moving

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• Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!

  Nate Dogg

  Hey, Smoke Weed, Smoke

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Kindness, Hate, Exercise

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• When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Garden, Evil, Pot

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• Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

  Gore Vidal

  Flower, Criticism, Warning

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

  Anne Tyler

  Men, Vegetables, Sweat

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

  Michael Dolan

  Effort, Littles, Might

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• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

  Patience Strong

  Positive, Nature, Law Of Attraction

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• Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

  James Franco

  Two, Guy, Plot

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• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Pain, Cancer, Marijuana

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• It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

  Carl Sagan

  Marijuana, Civilization, Agriculture

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  Paul McCartney

  Attitude, Hate, Thinking

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• I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he was saying. But i think he was trying to communicate was that he wanted to work with me in some sort of capacity and something involving marijuana.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dog, Marijuana, Thinking

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• The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.

  Barack Obama

  War, Marijuana, Law

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• La cucaracha, la cucaracha, Ya no quieres caminar, Porque no tienes, Porque le falta, Marihuana que fumar.

  Pancho Villa

  Marijuana, Hemp, Cannabis

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• I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

  Schoolboy Q

  Daughter, Buckets, Hats

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• There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

  John Wayne

  Marijuana, Doe, Hemp

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• So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  God, Temples, Creeds

  Frank Lebby Stanton (1898). “Comes One with a Song”

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Marijuana, Addiction, Drug

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• I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand

  Jean Chretien

  Marijuana, Hands, Trying

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