Weed Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

  Henry Beard

  Flower, Vegetables, Roots

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• To rid the grass of weed, to get
  The whole root,
  Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
  
  And desire - to make clean, make pure.
  The weed, tough
  As the rock it leaps against,
  
  Unless plucked to the last
  Live fiber
  Will plunge up through dark again.
  
  The weed also has the desire
  To make clean,
  Make pure, there against the rock.

  Lucien Stryk

  Strong, Dark, Rocks

  Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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• Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
  You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

  Ghostface Killah

  Baby, Rap, Moon

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• Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me
  A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly.
  Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me
  A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed.
  Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me
  A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Games, Hip Hop

  Song: Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto, 1996

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• Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
  100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

  Jadakiss

  Song, Rap, Cds

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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