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Weed Quotes - Page 33

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

"Exit Interview: Janet Reno". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. January 17, 2001.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

"The Oscars? Oh no, not again..." by Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan KNOWLES, Robert Shelton MACKENZIE (1838). “The Dramatic Works of J. S. K. With a Memoir by R. Shelton Mackenzie”

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.113

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.158, Yale University Press

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt