Pulling Weeds Quotes

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

  Sylvia Browne

  Weed, Fear, Rip

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

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Sweet, Flower

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

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

  Martha Smith

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

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• I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

  Justin Hartley

  Weed, Roots, Knowing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must cultivate our own garden.

  Voltaire

  Healing, Garden, Eden

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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• Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

  Dennis Rainey

  Weed, Selfishness, Stories

  Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey (1995). “Moments Together for Couples: 365 Daily Devotions for Drawing Near to God & One Another”, p.368, Baker Books

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• I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Garden, Religion, Spirit

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Garden, Thinking, Religion

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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, Weed, Jobs

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• It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4833, e-artnow

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• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Parenting, Garden

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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• The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

  Robertson Davies

  Weed, Book, Mind

  Robertson Davies (2002). “For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies”, Penguin Group USA

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• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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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, Weed, Believe

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• The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Weed, Thinking, Giving

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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