“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”

“An ill weed grows apace.”

“It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.”

“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.”

“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts. Such grace, such dignity, such a tragedy.”

“[W]ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

“As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.”

“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”