Flower Quote by Andrew Marvell

“She’d had unsettling dreams like this. 'I’m wandering through Miryoku, but it’s not Miryoku. Or it is, but it’s been abandoned and overgrown, like…

— Molly Ringle

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely…

— Karel Capek

“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim…

— Marisha Pessl

“The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the…

— Katherine Mansfield

Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to…

— Stefan Themerson

I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!

— Ari Shaffir

“Life is like an overgrown garden. You can spend your time cursing the weeds, or you can work to pull them out. In either…

— Sabrina Jeffries

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you…

— Walter Murch

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

— Emily Yoffe

“Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.”

— MacKayla Lane

“But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the…

— Saul Bellow

“Even in its ragged state, the garden is astonishingly beautiful. The untended, untouched look of it--- and the ivy-covered walls that protect it on…

— Meg Donohue

“Low branches, dead and snapping against us. On the lookout for rattlesnakes. But the path was short enough, and soon we were on a…

— David Vann