Weeds Quotes

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

He is going to dance around the weeds a little bit, calling for the Fed to be data-dependent.

We both like gardening. We spend all our time pulling weeds.

We've decided that cutting residents' weeds is not a good idea because unfortunately we have a lot of people who get lazy ...

You would find a few organisms that just grew like crazy. We call them 'weeds' because they take advantage of the luxurious conditions found in the lab but they might not be the ones who are important out in the real world, where it isn't so luxurious.

You're investing your time in bringing your weeds back down to where your traditional weed control systems are effective.

A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lot of grass fires are preventable.

Once again, everybody is picking someone else in our division. So we'll just kind of lay back in the weeds and take care of business.

I'm very pleased with this group. We'll lie low in the weeds.

I was kind of waiting in the weeds there. I had a hunch. It was bouncing pretty funny. I thought one more bounce over his stick and it would be there.