Top 43 Weeding Out Quotes
#1. Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
Warren Farrell
#2. Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.
Margaret Sanger
#3. Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
Jonathan Swift
#4. It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M.F.K. Fisher
#5. Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn't necessary.
Biz Stone
#6. What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin
#7. Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Sapir
#8. But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.
Robert Solow
#9. Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind, weeding out the thoughts of lack, limitation, and negativity. You must nurture and tend the thoughts of happiness, success, and purpose.
Randy Gage
#10. Birth control is nothing more or less than ... weeding out the unfit.
Margaret Sanger
#11. Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory's storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#12. A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long ... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them ...
Sara Bonnett Stein
#13. He focused his mind on other things so his pecker would behave and not turn any harder than it already was. Things like pruning bushes, and weeding the vegetable garden, and planting his cock deep inside her. "No, No, not that, I mustna dwell on that.
Vonnie Davis
#14. But one way or another competing and weeding takes place ... or a race goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
#15. Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.
Victoria Glendinning
#16. Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.
Soul Dancer
#17. ...it is our animal nature to judge the wake more harshly, owing to how survival depends upon weeding these creatures out.
Suzanne Rindell
#18. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
Margery Fish
#19. Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.
Mary Fabyan Windeatt
#20. Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
Roy Blount Jr.
#22. My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.
David Hobson
#23. To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.
Jon Gordon
#24. I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
Stuart Woods
#25. I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
John Hurt
#26. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
Ron Brackin
#27. It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts.
Auliq Ice
#28. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
Jamaica Kincaid
#29. Cotton says, "If God be the gardener, who shall pluck up what he sets down?" Hear that, Indians? No weeding of the white people allowed. Unless they're Catholic. Or one of those Satan-worshipping Virginians.
Sarah Vowell
#30. Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.
Barbara Damrosch
#32. Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.
Lydia Davis
#33. An Evangelists heart cry is for the lost, not so much on maturing the saints, or weeding sin out of
the church, or pastoring the flock, but for the lost to see Christ, and the sin he bore for them, and
cry out for them to run to Him!
Billy Witt
#34. It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.
Jay Neugeboren
#35. 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
#36. I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
Elton John
#37. I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#38. 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 of defiance, which flourish underground.
Terry Pratchett
#39. We get so caught up weeding the yard that we completely miss the tulips that nature gives us for a few precious weeks. We postpone joy.
Amit Sood
#40. Spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out, or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.
Richard Louv
#41. The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost no function in an investment bank. The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.
Michael Lewis
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