“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Small Gods
Source: Small Gods
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Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.”
Arthur Young (1741–1820) English writer
Attributed to Arthur Young in: Henry Colman (1848), The Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, from Personal Observation http://books.google.com/books?id=fAcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA300, p. 300
“Who fain would sow the fallow field,
And see the growing corn,
Must first remove the useless weeds,
The bramble and the thorn.”
Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrum
liberat arua prius fruticibus,
falce rubos filicemque resecat,
ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century
Poem I, lines 1-4; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III
“Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.”
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: Perfect
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 13 (p. 140)