Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

James Grant

Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying 'yes' too frequently.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

Louise Erdrich

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

Henry Beard

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

Mahatma Gandhi

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

John Adams

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

All we worked on all week was defense.

Stephen Hendry

All week they've been fantastic, one or two little flashes, but the same as you get in the UK.

Ben Roethlisberger

The first two weeks we did very well on offense,

Natalie Gulbis

This is one of those weeks where you have to be really, really patient.

This is more to do with profit-taking at the end of a week of extraordinary gains.

Eric Lefkofsky

My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

Eric Benet

My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.

The first week is only a test. Now we're back in business.

The first week doesn't give us much of a snapshot.

James Franco

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

James Franco

Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

James Franco

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

Luther Burbank

I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

Luther Burbank

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

A flower is an educated weed.

Luis Valdez

It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.

You can't underestimate your opponent, and we did that all weekend long.

Cyril Connolly

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

This is really the week it must be done.

The week is always very controversial on campus, but it's a lot of fun.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Thomas Jefferson

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Thomas Jefferson

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

Takeo Spikes

You have to be more disciplined in what you do. You have to make the plays when you're supposed to make them. When the play is presented to you, you have to make it. We have to have guys flying around the ball. It will definitely be a good game to watch this weekend.

Stephen King

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.