Top 100 Quotes About A Weed
#1. For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.
Shunryu Suzuki
#2. With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles ... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
#3. This may not however elevate your stature during the years you have remaining; for fame's a weed, but repute is a slow-growing oak, and all we can do during our lifetimes is hop around like squirrels and plant acorns.
Neal Stephenson
#4. I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.
Daniel Keyes
#6. Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed.
Mia Sheridan
#7. The garden of faith
Has no room to grow a weed like fear.
Debasish Mridha
#8. I feel like a weed in the midst of Winter. 'Tis the sunshine of your smile that will bring back the Spring of my days. We arrive in four days. I hope you will grace me again with your presence. Yours, Morgan (Morgan's letter)
Kinley MacGregor
#9. Perhaps power had to be tended, like Tieren said, but not all things grew in gardens. Plenty of plants grew wild. And Lila had always thought of herself more as a weed than a rose bush.
Victoria Schwab
#11. We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
#12. Do not plant a weed and pretend surprise when it grows to strangle your garden. For, I tell you that to hate is to kill for from hatred grows death as surely as life grows from love.
Michael Grant
#13. A weed doesn't care if it is beautiful or not. It only cares that it survives.
Catherine Beery
#15. What do you mean, what's the deal with my hair?" - Swift
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"Did you get bored one day and hack half of it off? You look like you've had a close call with a weed whacker." - Cas
Emily Skrutskie
#16. Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Kary Mullis
#17. Protestant-Catholic disputes have been more easily eradicated, while racial prejudice has the stubborn resilience of a weed that breaks off at the ground level, leaving the taproot intact.
Robert P. Jones
#18. I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.
Michael Faraday
#19. Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.
Soul Dancer
#20. A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place
Cecelia Ahern
#21. Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
Simon Wiesenthal
#22. Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything."
"There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce."
Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker."
The image made Kendra giggle.
Brandon Mull
#23. I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.
Marilyn Buck
#25. I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.
Justin Hartley
#26. What was a weed, anyway. A plant nobody planted? A seed escaped from a traveler's coat, something that didn't belong? Was it something that grew better than what should have been there? Wasn't it just a word, weed, trailing its judgments. Useless, without value. Unwanted.
Janet Fitch
#27. What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
Jodi Picoult
#28. Do you have a weed eater?" "No." "Then you're gay.
Various
#29. It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.
Frank Herbert
#30. Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
Caryl Rivers
#32. A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#33. Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed
Which oft offends the very idol
vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume.
Elijah Fenton
#34. Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#35. There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.
Mark Zandi
#36. The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.
Neal Shusterman
#37. FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan Perlis
#39. Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannett
#40. Kissing Storm made her feel like a weed that had never known anything but drought and his lips were a summer rain, flooding her with a life energy that pushed her to grow.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.
Jadakiss
#42. Helen's words had hit Quentin like a weed whacker stuck down the front of his underwear and turned on high. And not the wimpy electric models, but the four-stroke gas engine that produce enough RPMs to turn his junk into noodle soup and effectively emasculate him. Fortunately it was metaphorical.
Jay Barry
#43. She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower.
Ellen Cooney
#44. The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
Wayne Dyer
#45. Stopping an argument is like pulling a weed. You have to get it before it seeds and gets beyond the point of no return.
Miranda Liasson
#46. She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
Scott Westerfeld
#47. My name is Lithuanian. My father was born there, and he gave me a cool name. It's the Lithuanian national flower - looks like a weed, a little bit like me! - although in Spanish it means a 'route' or 'road,' and in Swedish it means 'square'. So, not quite so cool in those countries.
Ruta Gedmintas
#48. Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.
Shannon Hale
#49. A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
#50. What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Donald C. Peattie
#52. It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
Michael Faraday
#53. Tsukiko Saionji: He doesn't look like a weed whacker.
Aoi "Flippy" Kyogoku: But I'm a computer hacker, and a safe cracker, and a butt smacker ... and I've got just the right equipment to trim your hedge.
Yuu Watase
#54. Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.
Diane Ackerman
#57. When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is. But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.
Shunryu Suzuki
#58. Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
#62. We are only qualified to administer mercy, not judgment, because we will pull up many a beautiful stalk of wheat, imagining him a weed.
Jen Hatmaker
#63. Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head
I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread
Sean Price
#64. A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
Khaled Hosseini
#65. An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
Allen Lacy
#66. They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare and they burn a hole in your retina. A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion.
Ray Bradbury
#67. So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.
Michelle Tea
#68. Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#69. This is a dandelion, " I told him. He shrugged. "I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective.
Kiera Cass
#70. 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
#71. Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.
Neil Gaiman
#72. Before me begging did she stand, Pouring out sorrows like a sea; Grief after grief: - on English Land Such woes I knew could never be; And yet a boon I gave her; for the Creature Was beautiful to see; a Weed of glorious feature!
William Wordsworth
#73. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows
Doug Larson
#74. Yes, and in just a few minutes, a dIck will be able to find your vagina without needing night vision goggles and a weed whacker.
Tara Sivec
#75. As pretty as a flower . . . as strong as a weed.
Mia Sheridan
#77. She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Nancy Price
#78. Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
Mort Crim
#79. Anger is a weed...It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don't let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.
Adam Gidwitz
#80. Whether a dandelion is a weed or a flower is entirely a matter of perspective.
Julia Tagliere
#81. Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.
Samuel Garth
#82. Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn Rand
#83. By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
Anne Fortier
#84. 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 yet know where the stems of the flowers are.
Walter Murch
#85. They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper
#86. Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy
#87. should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'?
Paulo Coelho
#88. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.
Garry Kasparov
#89. Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
Virginia Woolf
#90. Don't stop me," said Bryony. "I'm pulling a weed. This is amazing.
T. Kingfisher
#91. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
L. Ron Hubbard
#92. We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.
Cameron Diaz
#93. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
Dag Hammarskjold
#94. I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half.
Melissa Joan Hart
#95. Most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.
Helen McCloy
#96. We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#97. And weed's not a drug - that's denial
Macklemore
#98. Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Homer
#99. Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
Vera Farmiga
#100. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...
Allen Tate
