Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henryk Sienkiewicz

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Khaled Hosseini

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

Khaled Hosseini

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Kerry Thornley

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Norman Mailer

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Oliver Stone

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.

Oliver Sacks

I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'

Oliver Cromwell

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

Merle Haggard

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Mason Cooley

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

Mencius

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

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.

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.

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.

Jimi Hendrix

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

John Heywood

What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as th'emeraude) spread in a bed of roses like the ruby red. Between which two colors he thought, but his eye, The green nettle did the red rose beautify. "How be it," he asked the nettle, "what thing Made him so pert? So nigh the Rose to Spring.

Neal Shusterman

The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

Rajneesh

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

Raekwon

No question I would speed for cracks and weed The combination made my eyes bleed.

Sheena Iyengar

Now if you expand their choice set. Say you give them 20 different speed dates, everything goes out the window. Everybody starts choosing in accordance with looks because that becomes the easiest criteria by which to weed out all the options and decide "So who am I going to say yes to?"

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.