Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Rostand

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

David Hobson

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

David Hume

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

David Hume

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

David Brooks

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Denis Waitley

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

Denis Waitley

Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Eden Sher

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.

Ed Helms

Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?

Ed Helms

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

Cass McCombs

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

We have no breaks. Every week we have a battle.

Alan Shepard

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

Bill Lee

Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.

Bill Lee

The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

Bill Maher

Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times.

Bill Maher

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English.

Bob Marley

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

Bob Marley

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Bob Marley

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Benjamin Franklin

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Arthur C. Clarke

And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

Diane Ackerman

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.

John Powell

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.

William Shakespeare

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.