Overgrown Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller… — Enric Sala
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for… — Lincoln Steffens
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk â€˜his life, his fortune and his sacred… — Robert A. Heinlein
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 no… — Karel Capek
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. — Andrew Marvell
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing… — Matt Taibbi
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 don't… — Walter Murch
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I… — Mr. T
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H. L. Mencken
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. — George Washington
These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an… — Milton Friedman
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 unsightly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be… — H. L. Mencken
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and… — Martin Van Buren
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated. — Gale Norton

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