Weed Quotes

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whose, Plant, Virtues

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

Learning, Grow, Survival

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Revenge, Justice

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Give, Through

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke

Slavery, Grows, Soil

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen

Love, Flower, Though

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Alone, Plants, Plant

A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Flower, Unloved

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

Beautiful, Mother, Someone

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper

Truth, Wisdom, Lead

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge

Ignorance, Evil, May

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman

Experience, Liberty, Ignorant

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft

America, Place, Cut

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome

Nature, Men, Young

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank

Children, Living, Attention

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

Excellence, Virtue, Faults

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
David McCullough

Work, Writing, Hard

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy

Plant, Bamboo, Flowering

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Steve Lacy

Living, Spirit, Ancient

Science grows like a weed every year.
Kary Mullis

Science, Year, Grows

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
Lindsay Wagner

Beauty, Truth, Yourself

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Ben Jonson

After, Lust, Neither

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

Greatest, Die, Violence

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine L. Rose

Freedom, Single, America

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.
Jason Mewes

Him, Pretty, Big

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Matthew McConaughey

Love, Art, Science

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Good, Dating, Together

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Wife, Around, Off

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

Good, Bad, Negative

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson

Door, Less, Grows

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