“A weed is a plant out of place.”
Source: The Killer Inside Me
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American writer 1906–1977Related quotes

“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
"Anti-Semitism in the United States", address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois (23 December 1920).

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
Fortune of the Republic (1878)

Attributed to Cosimo de' Medici in: Jean Lucas-Dubreton (1961). Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici. p. 58

“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
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Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)

How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening