Weed Quotes - Page 14

• Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Flower, Ignorance, Mind

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Don't plant your days they turn into weeds

  Tom Waits

  Plant, Turns

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• Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

  Denis Waitley

  Flower, Pointing

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• My thoughts hold mortal strife, I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries, Peace to my soul to bring, Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize; But he, grim-grinning king, Who caitiffs scorns and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.

  William Drummond

  Sad, Kings, Rose

  William Drummond, Peter Cunningham (1833). “The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham”, p.234

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• Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Nov 26, 2012

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• The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.

  Nick Yee

  God, Atheist, Powerful

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• A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Garden, Gardening, Plant

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• The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

  Sting

  War, Sacrifice, Marijuana

  "Let’s End the War on Drugs" by Sting, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

  Brian Tracy

  Flower, Garden, Mind

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• And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  What would the world be, once bereft
  Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
  O Let them be left, wildness and wet:
  Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Long, Rivers And Water

  1881 'Inversnaid'.

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• They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Beach, Eye, Glasses

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.187, Vintage

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• To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Winning, Secret

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.113

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• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Digging A Hole, Plant

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• An ill weed grows apace.

  George Chapman

  Ill, Grows

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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• Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Flower, Garden, People

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• Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower

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• Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Science, Discovery, Law

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• Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Garden, Suffering

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Flower, Garden, Attention

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• Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Honesty, Men, Prejudice

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (186?). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author”

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• The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

  Ruth Stout

  Garden, Clothes, May

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

  Peter Smithers

  Garden, Plant, Hardy

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• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?

  Thomas Huxley

  Garden, Compassion, Generosity

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.47, 1st World Publishing

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• I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Crazy, Writing, Garden

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• Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.240, A&C Black

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