Weed Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

  Robert Fulghum

  Opportunity, Garden, Hands

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• You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Positive, Attitude, Reality

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• I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good

  Kevin Smith

  Kids, Marijuana, Drug

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• The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.

  Clarence Thomas

  Marijuana, College, White

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Opportunity, Garden, Rose

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• I'm all about that money, dress like everyday sunny, rolling weed like a Marley, smile like everything funny.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Everyday, Rolling

  Song: Telescope

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• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Garden, Heaven, Suffering

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “Uniformity with God's Will”, p.6, TAN Books

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• Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

  Rumi

  Garden, Long, Rose

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• No question I would speed for cracks and weed
  The combination made my eyes bleed.

  Raekwon

  Rap, Eye, Cracks

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• Please don't bite baby,
  I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady...
  She let me hide my weed in her titties

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Rap, White

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• Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Flower, Finest

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• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Flower, Giving

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

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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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• Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

  Richard Sapir

  Inspirational, Birthday, Focus

  Richard Sapir (1988). “Quest”, Onyx Books

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• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Flower, Marijuana, Deeds

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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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