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“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.”
Scandanavian Proverb
“Ill weed grows fast”
Proverb
“Once again, everybody is picking someone else in our division. So we'll just kind of lay back in the weeds and take care of business.”
Chipper Jones
“We cleaned up the plant nurseries, pulled out weeds, cleaned up the garbage and fixed the irrigation system.”
Joshua Thompson
“Some of our kids in the program might not be as committed as I want them to be. We'll weed them out and get some other guys, and we'll confirm our commitment to the guys who believe in what we're doing 100 percent.”
Dave Robbins
“A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lot of grass fires are preventable.”
Chief Gary Ogden
“Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.”
William Cowper
