Top 100 Quotes About Weeds
#1. Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.
Cormac McCarthy
#2. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
Deborah Levy
#3. Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.
Peter Schjeldahl
#4. They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
Dag Hammarskjold
#8. People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.
Nancy Farmer
#9. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.
Laura Miller
#10. Our impotent condemnation of weeds will not stop this revolution. We aren't getting the revolution we want: we're getting the one that we triggered. The
Hope Jahren
#11. We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.
Phillip Cary
#12. You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.
Richard Siken
#13. The Raven's house is built with reeds, - Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
Thomas D
#15. Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If you see weeds, pluck them!
Steve Maraboli
#16. Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.
Jonathan Kellerman
#17. Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Homer
#18. Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root.
Christoph Von Schmid
#20. You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.
Pat McBride
#21. Two of the most nutritious plants in the world - lamb's quarters and purslane - are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens.
Michael Pollan
#22. 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
#23. If negativity starts to cloud your thoughts, get on your hands & knees and pull out the weeds.
John Addison
#24. Like garden weeds, conflict always seems to find a way of sprouting up,
Richard Foreman
#25. Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends on it.
Angie Smith
#26. O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.
William Shakespeare
#27. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
David Hume
#28. Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.
P.D. James
#29. I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing one type of role, but I really don't think that my role in 'Weeds' did at all.
Alexander Gould
#30. Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. Thoughts like weeds will grow automatically unless we train them according to our choice. Thoughts gravitate according to what's happening around us.
Hina Hashmi
#32. I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith
#33. A quarter-moon smeared a feverish glow on the marble slabs and dappled the trodden weeds that beleaguered them with a pale dewy leprosy; only the massy shadows which clustered around the trunks of the ancient oaks and beeches escaped its infection.
William Scott Home
#36. We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.
Tony Robbins
#37. They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#38. Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.
Edwin Paxton Hood
#39. Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.
Jack Harlan
#41. Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables ...
Anne Tyler
#42. She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able to understand anyone wanting to do. Though I suppose, if you face it squarely, they're no worse than spinach.
P.G. Wodehouse
#43. I have no fear here, in this world of trees, weeds, and growing things.
Bell Hooks
#44. E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.
Joseph Addison
#45. More than every once in awhile,
More than most dreams,
More than just my heart,
More than anything,
More than you know,
And more than I can say,
I've loved you more
Every passing day
Laura Miller
#46. I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing ... - WOODY GUTHRIE
Richard Louv
#47. I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back.
Laura Miller
#48. Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
Aldo Leopold
#49. The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.
Francois Mauriac
#50. This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#51. Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds
Andy Partridge
#52. Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
#53. Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Peter Kreeft
#54. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow ...
John Fletcher
#55. The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.
George P. Bush
#56. I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
I have supposed.
Walt Whitman
#57. Don't plant your days they turn into weeds
Tom Waits
#58. What a funny girl, I thought, and then I realized something. To the three-year-old ye, and maybe even to the thirty year old eye, weeds and grass look very similar. Same color, same feeling, same texture.
Angie Smith
#60. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.
Lao-Tzu
#61. The indignity of it!-
With everything blooming above me,
Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
Me down in the fetor of weeds,
Crawling on all fours,
Alive, in a slippery grave.
Theodore Roethke
#62. When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears
I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
Irving Stone
#63. Soon he had a glowing, stinking lasso of poisonous weeds. Hooray.
Rick Riordan
#64. Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
Mason Cooley
#65. Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,
William Zinsser
#66. Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.
Linda Kage
#67. She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
Mark Twain
#68. He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean - privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.
William H Gass
#69. It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#70. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect.
Laura Miller
#71. There were cracked head stones, dead flowers and weeds coming through the ground. Even the trees looked lifeless. --The Body By the Tree
Yawatta Hosby
#72. The truth of God's Word cuts through the good and bad of our lives like a trowel digging up hard-to-remove weeds without damaging the plant.
Jo Ann Fore
#73. My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own.
Edmond Rostand
#74. Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do.
But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing.
Joanne Harris
#76. Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
Thomas Paine
#77. I invent her, then, as a woman emerging from the sea.
A tall man meets here on the black sand.
You've come back, he says.
Can barely see her in the sea-light.
They make love there, and become horses.
As night grows black they become weeds
Maggie Nelson
#78. Christopher throws dandelion head after dandelion head into his bag. It's getting heavy now and his fingers are stained from the work but there are still so many left to kill. His biggest mistake is giving them names.
Brian Martinez
#79. Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
Jerome K. Jerome
#80. Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore De Balzac
#81. If my self was my dwelling, then my body resembled an orchard that surrounded it. I could either cultivate that orchard to its capacity or leave it for the weeds to run riot in.
There are some truths in this world that one cannot see unless one unbends one's posture.
Yukio Mishima
#82. The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne
#83. You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
Jim Rohn
#84. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.
Tika Sumpter
#85. Tend your own garden: savor the blossoms, trim the weeds.
Ron Kaufman
#86. We all do our part," Alex teased. "But if it's any consolation, Red's problems are a lot like weeds. No matter how many times you pull them, they just keep coming back.
Chris Colfer
#87. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
Bruce Lee
#88. Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.
David O. McKay
#89. But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.
Carol Vorvain
#91. 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 themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.
Noam Chomsky
#92. Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
William Shakespeare
#94. A racer snake / slicking off / like a signature into the weeds.
Tony Crunk
#95. Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
George Sand
#96. Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#97. Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.
Kristin Armstrong
#98. But that's precisely how stupidity flourishes; in bunches, in fast-growing weeds that choke delicately nurtured knowledge.
Sam Sykes
#99. Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
Ron Chernow
#100. She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past; an echo on the brink of a russet ravine, with a far wood under a white sky, and brown leaves choking the brook, and one last cricket in the crisp weeds.
Vladimir Nabokov
