Top 1200 Pulling Weeds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We have to root out the weeds of hate and ensure it doesn't choke away the healthy flowers of diversity in our borough, city, and state.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

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.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

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

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.

There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

Don't dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that's all that they are. They're just rumors.

Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

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

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Pulmonarias need splitting every two or three years, as they rapidly develop into a doughnut with an empty centre that quickly gets filled with weeds.