Weed Quotes

977 Weed quotes by 579 unique authors

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and… — C.S. Lewis
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
A weed is a plant out of place. — Jim Thompson
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I… — Philip K. Dick
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which… — John Steinbeck
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes… — Terry Pratchett
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… — Virginia Woolf
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without… — Dag Hammarskjold
Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? — Virginia Woolf
They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months… — Zadie Smith
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… — Amy Tan
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… — Emily Post
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,… — John Galsworthy
You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds… — John Steinbeck
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. — Khaled Hosseini
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often… — Lewis Hyde
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust — Vladimir Nabokov
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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