Weed Quotes - Page 28

• Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

  Anne Tyler

  Men, Vegetables, Sweat

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

  Michael Dolan

  Effort, Littles, Might

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• I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thinking, Solitary, Activity

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• The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Yards

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.137, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.

  Nelly

  Family, Seeds, Smoke

  Song: Show 'em What They Won

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• Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Needs, Multiple, Herbicides

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.

  Kay Panabaker

  People, Mind, Negative

  "Kay Panabaker Interview No Ordinary Family". Promo Interview, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Sweet, Stars, Garden

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

  Stuart Woods

  Ideas, Trouble, Grows

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• Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hero, Light, Giving

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

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• I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed.

  Aaron Lewis

  Bottles, Littles, Drink

  Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

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• Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.

  Christina Hendricks

  Cat, Important, Needs

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• I think being on Weeds, in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.

  Alexander Gould

  Thinking, Nemo, Think Of Me

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• It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mind, Fields, Faults

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience, Use, Plant

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• He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Roots, Trying

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• E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

  Joseph Addison

  Rocks, Myrtle, Rich

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.179

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Spring, Fighting, Hoe

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

  John Milton

  Sea, Dropping, Dank

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.691

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• Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

  Thomas Paine

  Together, Suspicion, Persecution

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Men, Grows

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.108

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• There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Track, Survival, Godmother

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.79, Library of America

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• Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Heart, Errors, Earth

  James Sheridan KNOWLES, Robert Shelton MACKENZIE (1838). “The Dramatic Works of J. S. K. With a Memoir by R. Shelton Mackenzie”

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• How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

  Yelawolf

  Parent, Alabama, Illegal

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