Top 100 Herb Quotes
#1. And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#2. Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
Les Paul
#3. The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. HERB CAEN WAS born in Sacramento, California, a town that combined all the glamour of a farm fair with the dazzle of a state franchise board hearing.
David Talbot
#5. Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.
Emeril Lagasse
#6. So concisely, musically we are the herb
So sit back and light me.
Inhale ...
My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.
Q-Tip
#7. I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
Vita Sackville-West
#8. Oh, darling, just look at your poor face. You're going to need an herb poultice and a fresh piece of steak for that wound."
"And here I was looking forward to eating dinner, not wearing it on my face.
Tracy Anne Warren
#9. Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.
Bob Marley
#10. I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.
Narendra Modi
#11. Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
William Shakespeare
#12. I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
James Boswell
#13. If you must sweeten your food, I'll allow the sugar alcohol xylitol and the sweet herb stevia. I prefer that you use xylitol or a blend of xylitol and stevia. I worry that if you use straight stevia, it might cause calorie disregulation. So I like to mix the two of them.
J.J. Virgin
#14. Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.
Richard Tuttle
#15. Herb nodded. "Problem is, you knocked up your girl. That's the only way women'll allow you to get away with a Justice of the Peace." Herb looked back to Hank as many of the men coughed to hide their laughter. "That's the ticket, son, only way to save us all. Start workin' on makin' a baby.
Kristen Ashley
#17. He is a presence to be felt and known
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
Spreading itself where'er that Power may move
Which has withdrawn his being to its own;
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#18. With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.
Anthony Trollope
#19. To preserve the best flavor, dehydrate herb leaves whole and garlic in slices, and then crush, chop, or mince when needed.
Tammy Gangloff
#20. You also ought to know that mandrake is a powerful aphrodisiac and is used in love magic, particularly to break down female resistance. That's the explanation of mandrake's folk name: love apple. It's a herb used to pander lovers.' 'Blockhead,' Milva commented. 'And
Andrzej Sapkowski
#22. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Weed's not as bad as everything else ... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp ... but you'll function.
Dave Chappelle
#24. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson
#25. Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.
Mary Renault
#26. All those governments and this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb ... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
Bob Marley
#27. There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.
Elizabeth Alder
#28. I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.
Leslie Meier
#29. My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.
Bob Marley
#30. Evil was the most contagious of diseases, so virulent that no herb, surgery, or dream-humor could cure it. One's sense of what was normal, acceptable, became distorted by proximity to wrongness; entire nations had succumbed this way, first to decadence, then collapse.
N.K. Jemisin
#31. Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?"
"Oh, I'm sure."
"Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers."
"Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945.
Natalie Standiford
#32. No sheth an sary'
(No herb shall heal like blood on the steel)
Joel Shepherd
#33. Human nature is always interesting ... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167
Agatha Christie
#34. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Anonymous
#35. Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
Jimi Hendrix
#36. Something told her to hide the feeling from Herb. That something, that damned something, was the sense of civilized dignity that is one of our most civilized attributes, the source of so many missed opportunities.
Eric Kraft
#37. I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?
Nelly
#38. Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden.
St John Morris
#39. As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, "Don't they realize they're paying us for doing something we'd be thrilled to do for nothing?
David V. Picker
#40. Hey, Frenchie!" Sage poked his head out the door, the sun hitting the brown of his hair to reveal hidden strands of red. "Did you bring any baguettes?"
"Why don't you go season something, Herb?
Nalini Singh
#41. Geralt finished his mug of herb tea, grimacing dreadfully. He valued and liked the settled elves for their intelligence, calm reserve and sense of humour, but he couldn't understand or share their taste in food or drink.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#42. Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.
Willie Nelson
#43. The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.
Bob Marley
#44. Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.
W.B.Yeats
#45. The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
Bob Marley
#46. What was she about to do? Trek across a freakish world in search of a rare and possibly extinct herb, with an arrogant mage prince who could turn her into a mutant rat with one word, and who likely suspected she was lying her kidnapped Earthling butt right off.
Cate Rowan
#47. My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce.
Tom Douglas
#48. My idea of a good herbalist isn't someone who knows the uses of forty different herbs, but someone who knows how to use one herb in forty different ways.
Svevo Brooks
#49. When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
Bob Marley
#50. The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
Bob Marley
#51. Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.
Michael Greger
#52. I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.
Rene Redzepi
#53. Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
A.B. Simpson
#54. Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.
David Wolfe
#55. The rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
Kenneth Grahame
#56. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
Pearl Cleage
#57. I will show you a love potion without drug or herb, or any witch's spell; if you wish to be loved, love.
Charles Lindberg
#58. Around him, the room was redolent of the unknown herb he'd found, green and fresh and yet somehow familiar, like something he hadn't known he had liked until it had appeared, suddenly and unexpectedly, in his life.
Hanya Yanagihara
#59. I drop styles on ears ... the public bite 'em.
Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.
Kool Keith
#60. Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
Van Wyck Brooks
#61. Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.
Jim Craig
#62. Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.
Roseanne Barr
#63. I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
Helena Christensen
#64. Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
Bob Marley
#65. But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#66. We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
Walter Scott
#67. Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
#68. Smoke that herb and clear your mind.
Nelly
#69. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
Alexander Pope
#70. Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.
Nas
#71. Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
Euripides
#72. 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
#73. ALKALI (A'LKALI) n.s.[The word alkali comes from an herb, called by the Egyptians kali; by us glasswort.] This
Samuel Johnson
#74. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.
Neal Stephenson
#75. Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#76. I know a place that serves great falafel." "Falafel?" "No, I don't feel awful." Herb grinned. "I feel pretty good.
J.A. Konrath
#77. The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
Ouida
#78. There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.
Leonard Nimoy
#79. Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.
Bob Marley
#80. How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
Andrew Marvell
#81. Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
Mourning Dove
#82. He signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
Barney Kessel
#83. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: DEU32:03 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Anonymous
#84. As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
Thomas More
#85. Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
Bob Marley
#86. I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.
Steve Zahn
#87. Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.
Kim Dickens
#89. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.
John Milton
#90. Crawford saw that in this place Starling was heir to the granny women, to the wise women, the herb healers, the stalwart country women who have always done the needful, who keep the watch and when the watch is over, wash and dress the country dead.
Thomas Harris
#91. And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#92. Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?
Bob Marley
#93. There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#94. I believe that marijuana, aka cannabis should be recognized for what it is - an effective herb, grown from soil and seed, nurtured by sun and rain.
Edward R. Cook
#96. I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley
#97. Frisco" - a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes.
David Talbot
#98. A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
Bob Marley
#99. When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.
Bob Marley
#100. Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.
Gene Chandler
