Weed Quotes - Page 22

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Marijuana, Excellence, Vices

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• Everybody has something now. It's become very over-saturated, and it's hard to weed out what's good, what you should watch and what you have time to watch. And Twitter was much less crowded, at the time, and it was an easier way to reach people. So, the combination of having a great video, a lot more access to people through Twitter, and having Kickstarter be this new thing in. We tapped into it, at its inception, and got people interested in it just based on the concept of what Kickstarter was. The timing was right.

  Simon Helberg

  People, Watches, Video

  Source: collider.com

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• By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Numbers, Tree, Extinction

  "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.

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• He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Sea, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Envy, Water, Shadow

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Men, White Man, Ignorant

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• There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

  Confucius

  Peasants, Negligence, Seeds

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• No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

  Matthew McConaughey

  Animal, Marijuana, Gadgets

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• Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Fear, Marijuana, Doe

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• It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear that this is much harder than it seems and not something we're going to be able to solve.

  Matt Blaze

  Able, Clear, Harder

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, Sea, Cities

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.155, Oxford University Press

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• A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Moving, Sleep, Eggs

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gary Scharnhorst (2012). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems”, p.7, Syracuse University Press

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• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  Allison Mackie

  Garden, Roots, Criticism

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• What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

  Edmund Spenser

  Nature, Fall, Delight

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.63

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

  Washington Irving

  Roots, Tree, Foundation

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Winter, Years

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1060

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• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Writing, Ideas

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Death, Growing Up, Flower

  Samuel Richardson (1774). “Clarissa: Or, The History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Showing the Difficulties that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage ...”, p.229

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• Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

  Matt Chandler

  Roots, Effort, Grace

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• The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Giving

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• Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Heaven, Confession

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Green, Docks, Scythes

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

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• O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Growth, Lord

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.447, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Don't bring your sand toys to the park. That's another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I'm on the Vicodin and a little weed too - let's face it - and I go in there, and my wife's like, 'Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!' And I know what happens every single time: I become sand toy repo man from the eight little kids that run off in nine different directions with my sand toys.

  Al Madrigal

  Running, Moving, Kids

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• I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.

  Brian Posehn

  Smoking, House, Trying

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