"He saw the kind of beauty yellow flowers have growing over a carpet of dead leaves. The beauty of cracks forming a mosaic in a dry riverbed, of emerald-green algae at the base of a seawall, of a broke..."
- Michelle Cuevas
"The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!"
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that in this ..."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?"
- Ryan Lilly
"It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be wo..."
- Criss Jami
"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Pick the weeds and keep the flowers."
- Kelly Clarkson
"With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember thi..."
- Victor Hugo
"Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don’t apply it."