“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act II, Sc. 13.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Speech at Meeting of London Vegetarian Society (20 November 1931), in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division Government of India, 1999 electronic edition), Volume 54 http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatma-gandhi-collected-works-volume-54.pdf, p. 189. <br class="br">1930s
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”
Source: Medea (431 BC), Lines 230–231 in Gilbert Murray's translation ( p. 15 https://archive.org/stream/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft#page/15/mode/1up)
“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”
John Wyndham book The Midwich Cuckoos
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
And the Healing Has Begun
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified