Weed Quotes - Page 11

• Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

  John Vance Cheney

  Nice, Flower, Opportunity

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• I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Vasectomy

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

  Illmaculate

  Rap, Smoking, Age

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Dark, Years, Purses

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

  Frank Auerbach

  Teaching, Garden, Uprooting

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• Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Alcohol, Drug, Speed

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• Follow me and do exactly what the song says
  Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people
  And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

  Eminem

  Song, School, People

  "Song: 'Role Model'". 1999.

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Autumn, Warrior, Blood

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• The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Running, Flower, Garden

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• I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Bumps, Able

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed, and don’t drive crazy on weed. They just get hungry, don’t go out of the house, or laugh a lot. I think it would make for a much more gentle world.

  Susan Sarandon

  Crazy, Drinking, Mean

  "Susan Sarandon on Her Love Affair With David Bowie, Woody Allen’s Creepiness, and Psychedelics". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 24, 2014.

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• A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

  John Vance Cheney

  Summer, Autumn, Men

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• I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

  David Letterman

  Night, Grass, Periods

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'

  Rachel Carson

  Song, Believe, Home

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

  George P. Bush

  Way, Stage, Overwhelming

  "A Conversation with George P. Shultz". Interview with Richard Haass, www.cfr.org. January 29, 2013.

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• Hey hey hey, smoke weed everyday

  Dave Chappelle

  Marijuana, Everyday, Hey

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• You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.

  David Letterman

  Memories, Loss, Smoking

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• All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

  Hal Borland

  Rain, Simple, Men

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• Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

  Sadao Araki

  Crops, Ruined, Remove

  "The Quarterly review" by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, (p. 20), 1935.

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• If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

  John Flavel

  Love, Family, Children

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58

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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

  Selfishness, Stories, Fruit

  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 faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.

  Keri Hulme

  Eye, Hair, Choices

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• Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Running, Animal, Men

  George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.138

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• Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

  George Sand

  Heart, Errors, Lovable

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• most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

  Helen McCloy

  Educational, Smart, People

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