Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Stone

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.

Jeaniene Frost

Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed.

George Sand

Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

John Wayne

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

John Steinbeck

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Nancy Farmer

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Schoolboy Q

I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it.

Schoolboy Q

I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

Michael Phelps

[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

Michael Pollan

For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Michael Pollan

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

Seth MacFarlane

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

Ray Charles

Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

Todd Rundgren

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.

Simon Wiesenthal

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Martha Smith

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Martha Stewart

Of course I know how to roll a joint.

Mark Zandi

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

Ted Turner

CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

Theodore Roethke

The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.

Theodore Roethke

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

Margaret Sanger

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

Margaret Sanger

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

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Margaret Sanger

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

Margaret Sanger

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Michael Faraday

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Michael Faraday

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Michael Bloomberg

You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

Melissa Etheridge

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Matthew McConaughey

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Matthew Arnold

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

Matthew McConaughey

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!