A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

A weed is but an unloved flower.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Steve Lacy

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.
Stephen Evans

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Wynn Bullock

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Matthew McConaughey

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
David McCullough

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine L. Rose

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.
Jason Mewes

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Ben Jonson

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!
Matthew McConaughey