Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conor Oberst

Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

Doug Larson

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

Dogen

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

Alphonsus Liguori

It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Andy Warhol

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

Chuck Daly

The less determined and the less motivated weed themselves out.

Christopher Moore

Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.

Angelina Jolie

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

Donald Glover

I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don't really know what it is, no smell.

e. e. cummings

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

Anne Tyler

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables ...

Andrew Cuomo

I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

Elbert Hubbard

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Ben Harper

Let us burn one from end to end, and pass it over to me my friend...

Ben Jonson

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Dean Wareham

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

Bob Denver

I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.

Abraham Lincoln

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Dan Quayle

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

Cormac McCarthy

They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

Confucius

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

Cyndi Lauper

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

David Letterman

Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is write you a ticket. Unfortunately, the ticket will be to a Jets game.

David Letterman

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

David Letterman

You've got to be careful smoking weed. It causes memory loss. And also, it causes memory loss.

David Gemmell

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

Kurt Vonnegut

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

William Shakespeare

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Ernestine Rose

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.

Moby

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

Kirsten Dunst

I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Kirsten Dunst

If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.