Weed Quotes - Page 13

• We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

  Phillip Cary

  Garden, Feelings, Care

  Phillip Cary (2010). “Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don't Have to Do”, p.130, Brazos Press

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• CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

  Ted Turner

  Marijuana, Anchors, Cnn

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• Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head
  I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

  Sean Price

  Gun, Hip Hop, Bigs

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• Struggle is the enemy, but weed is the remedy.

  Kid Cudi

  Struggle, Marijuana, Enemy

  Song: Bigger Than You

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• Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Garden, Evil, Moral

  Henry Morton Stanley (1909). “The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ...”

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• What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

  John Heywood

  Spring, Eye, Men

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• Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex

  Wiz Khalifa

  Running, Sex, Stress

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• Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mean, Alcohol, Junk

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.50, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And weed's not a drug - that's denial

  Macklemore

  Drug, Denial

  Song: Otherside

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

  Russell Banks

  Kids, Boys, Mirrors

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Life, Dog

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• The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

  David Hume

  Genius, Soil, Philosopher

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Joy Luck Club, Spilling

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.196, Penguin

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• Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wisdom, Flower, Growth

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• What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop.

  Zhang Sanfeng

  Practice, Long, Taoism

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• Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

  Diane Dreher

  Spiritual, Teaching, Godly

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• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Kings, Children, Flower

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Smart, Tv Shows, Focus

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

  Homer

  Garden, Process, Successful Marriage

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivational, Writing, Artist

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Latin, Flower, Mean

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• Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Law, Population

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.229, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

  Margaret Sanger

  Garden, Race, People

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• After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Beautiful, Mother, Spring

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• I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Lying, Doors

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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