#weed

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ↗

— Doug Larson

#every #except #grow #how #learning

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#attribute #entirely #i #men #middle

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#flowering #magnificent #plant #weed

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#anti-semitism #cut #noxious #out #place

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

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

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#lust #neither #thou #tobacco #weed

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#grew #having #i #ignorant #liberty

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fertilizer #hypocracy #hypocrite #religion #weeds