Quotes about weed
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Quotes about weed

Quote in Monet's letter to art-critic and his friend Gustave Geffroy, 22 June 1890; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 129
1890 - 1900

Referring to himself, during a skit on SNL’s the Miley Cyrus Show, as quoted in Huffington Post "Justin Bieber Apologizes For Smoking Weed On 'Saturday Night Live'" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/justin-bieber-apologizes-smoking-weed_n_2657314.html, February 2013

Date unknown, but believed to be 1992-06-30 in Sweden http://www.livenirvana.com/official/index.html.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video

"Marriage and Love" in Anarchism and Other Essays (1911)
Context: Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Source: The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm
“And the weed loud, like a lion's roar.”
Intro, written with Willie Hodge and Jermaine Preyan
2010s, Tha Carter IV (2011)

“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.
Poem I, lines 1-4; translation by H. R. James
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book III

“Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.”
58
Sermons

Harpal Brar, Perestroika - The complete collapse of revisionism, pg. 274-75.

Sec. 105
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Another thing wherein they shew their love of dominion, is, their desire to have things to be theirs: They would have propriety and possession, pleasing themselves with the power which that seems to give, and the right that they thereby have, to dispose of them as they please. He that has not observ's these two humours working very betimes in children, has taken little notice of their actions: And he who thinks that these two roots of almost all the injustice and contention that so disturb human life, are not early to be weeded out, and contrary habits introduc'd, neglects the proper season to lay the foundations of a good and worthy man.

“When the weather is good for crops it is also good for weeds.”
1900s, Address at Providence (1901)
Context: We are passing through a period of great commercial prosperity, and such a period is as sure as adversity itself to bring mutterings of discontent. At a time when most men prosper somewhat some men always prosper greatly; and it is as true now as when the tower of Siloam fell upon all alike, that good fortune does not come solely to the just, nor bad fortune solely to the unjust. When the weather is good for crops it is also good for weeds.

That which the educator must seek is to be able to see the child as Jesus saw him. It is with this endeavour, thus defined and delimited, that we wish to deal.
The Secret of Childhood, p. 108

“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged

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

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”

“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

" Inversnaid http://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html, lines 13-16
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems

“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”
Source: An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
Fortune of the Republic (1878)
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Orig. pub. 1947), pp. 101 https://books.google.it/books?id=4WuzlD0hkSgC&pg=PA101-102.

"Doron's Description of Samela", line 1, from Menaphon; Dyce p. 287.

“Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”
Unknown source, attributed by Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) http://www.blackgenocide.org/planned.html and by Roger L. Roberson, Jr, The Bible & the Black Man: Breaking the Chains of Prejudice (2007), p. 18.
Seems to take "human weeds" from "a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds" or from "the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks– those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization" and "exterminated" from "we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea" (see above).
Misattributed

Source: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 12: The Guest of the Blue Nuns, p. 162
“Where's the meat? This sandwich is full of weeds! I ain't eatin' nothing I don't understand!”
Quotes from acting
"An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum" in Modern British Poetry (1962) edited by Louis Untermeyer (1962) variant : Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor.
Ruins and Visions (1942)

"Meet Bryant Jennings: The Vegan Gunning to Be Heavyweight Champion" https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2599932-meet-bryant-jennings-the-vegan-gunning-to-be-heavyweight-champion, interview with Bleacher Report (December 17, 2015).

“Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.”
Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5

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

VII: On "Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Content" and "Long Term Coexistence and Mutual Supervision"
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

"Apostle of Birth Control Sees Cause Gaining Here", The New York Times, , p. XII http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E1DF1F30E333A2575BC0A9629C946295D6CF.

" Who Was Margaret Sanger? http://www.ewtn.com/library/prolife/pp04a.txt", brochure published by the American Life League, regarding The Pivot of Civilization http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1689/1689.txt.
None of those quoted phrases actually appear in the book.
Misattributed

Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008), Ch. 10 (p. 190)

“I love the weed, blow that odour”
"I Wonder"

“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).

A Common Inference.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)

“[W]ithout hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
Farewell to a Prophet, Ensign, July 1994.

Letter of Expostulation to Coke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hell no, you can't smoke for free!
White Dawg make you bounce when you want that weed.”
"Bounce & Jump" on Thug Ride (1999)

Full Frontal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvl6spBVEc, February 15, 2016
The Wayfarer, No. 13
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

Les gens sans esprit ressemblent aux mauvaises herbes qui se plaisent dans les bons terrains, et ils aiment d'autant plus être amusés qu'ils s'ennuient eux-mêmes.
Source: The Vicar of Tours (1832), Ch. I.

“The wind is not helpless for any man's need,
Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.”
Love is Enough (1872), Song II: Have No Thought for Tomorrow

Davis, Leesa, "Who Got the Part: Carson Grant", Backstage, November 9, 2006, p. 18.
About his ABC's audition philosophy printed in 2006 Backstage.

A forsaken Garden.
Undated

The Plutocrat (1927), chapter 30 (Earl Tinker speaking to Jean-Edouard Le Seyeux)

Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny), his song dedicated to John Lennon
Song lyrics, Jump Up! (1982)

Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)
On Albums, Illmatic (1994)