Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

Charles Dickens

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

Charles Dickens

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

DJ Quik

Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i said, me find my joint now and me want to take a toke, let take a long hit, hold the smoke untill me choke!

Dave Chappelle

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

I don't do drugs, though. Just weed.

Dave Chappelle

Hey hey hey, smoke weed everyday

David Sedaris

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

Aaron Yoo

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Charles Dickens

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Charles Dickens

Eccentricities of genius.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Brian Eno

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Michael Donovan

Some of the soil has to go; some can be spread around the site.

Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.