Weeds Are Flowers Too Quotes

#1. Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

A.A. Milne

#2. Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

Lesley Kagen

#3. Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#4. Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#5. Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Bruce Lee

#7. I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#8. He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. Those are pretty," She commented, leaning down to smell the flowers.
"They're from Violette," I said, watching for her reaction.
"They look like weeds," she replied, straightening.

Amy Plum

#10. I do have a heart. A big, messy, bleeding-like-a-volcano heart. If you pulled it out of my chest, it would be covered in escaped butterflies and black holes and weeds that look like flowers.

Amy Zhang

#11. Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#12. Life is like an overgrown garden. You can spend your time cursing the weeds, or you can work to pull them out. In either case, the flowers are what matter.

Sabrina Jeffries

#13. When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

William Shakespeare

#15. Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

Hakuun Yasutani

#16. We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Josh Radnor

#17. The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. But I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers."
(pg 134)

Jodi Picoult

#19. Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?

Nikki Rowe

#20. If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#21. Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Hosea Ballou

#22. Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.

Dorothea Dix

#23. Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.

Brian Tracy

#24. Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Gore Vidal

#25. Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren't things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched.

Cheryl Strayed

#26. Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#27. Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

Erica Alex

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Mason Cooley

#32. 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