Weed Quotes - Page 33

• I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Hate, Kids

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

  Ben Jonson

  Marijuana, Lust, Tobacco

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.529, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

  John Dewey

  Aim, Undesirable, Selection

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.191, Penguin

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• There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

  Emily Post

  Life Is Too Short, Eye, Drawing

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Dirty, Flower

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Garden, Body

  William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). “Othello”, p.68, Barron's Educational Series

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• Without strong financial roots, our generation is in a constant state of redefinition. This forces us to think outside the box when it comes to making a living... which sometimes makes it look like we're a mess, but really we're just creative. And we like weed.

  Lake Bell

  Strong, Thinking, Creative

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Garden, Roots, Grows

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.314, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Sight, Jewels

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an opportunity to say, "I'm going to be in charge of my own narrative. I'm going to be the one who sees that this is OK for me," like anything else, it just gives you a position of feeling like you can be in charge of those things.

  Kate Hudson

  Technology, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came out of that, "Can't you dig that?" "I knew that you would." We were at [Passover] Seders and they were confused with the bitter herbs, "Do we smoke these or do we do we dip them in salt water?" "We dip them in salt water, well that's gonna kill the vibrancy of the weed, you know." So that's what I was around. So I would imitate them. That's where it all started.

  Billy Crystal

  Confused, Water, House

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Marijuana, Cannabis, Enjoyed

  "Bloomberg Says He Regrets Marijuana Remarks". www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2002.

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• One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Marijuana, Hemp

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series" edited by George Plimpton, 1967.

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• I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Moving, Tired, People

  "‘BoJack Horseman’ creator breaks down the year’s best episode of television". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 23, 2016.

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• You'll always see me at a political rally and the black strip club; I'm gonna represent smoking weed and supporting Trayvon Martin on my record, because I'm a whole man.

  Killer Mike

  Men, Political, Smoking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Ocean, Writing, Marijuana

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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Taken, Marijuana, Drug

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• People always try to palm me weed when I'm always talking about how I don't smoke weed. But they always try to ... and when they stop offering me weed, then I'm going to feel kind of out of touch, like: "What did I do wrong that you won't offer me drugs that I don't do?" Because I'll trade those drugs out for drugs that I do do.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Drug, Trying

  Source: hightimes.com

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• Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

  Barbara Holland

  Joy, Sturdy, Gloom

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• Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Marijuana, Years, Perception

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• I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Marijuana, Thinking, Alcohol

  "Going the Distance" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

  Oliver Sacks

  Atheist, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 6, 2012.

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• I've been smoking marijuana for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Blessing, Marijuana, Thinking

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