Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Turner

CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

John Ruskin

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

John Owen

Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

John Milton

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

Nina Fedoroff

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

Mike Tyson

I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.

Mike Tyson

He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

Theodore Roethke

The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of weeds, Crawling on all fours, Alive, in a slippery grave.

Theodore Roethke

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

Margaret Sanger

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

Margaret Sanger

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.

Margaret Sanger

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Margaret Sanger

Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.

Margaret Sanger

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Michael Faraday

I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.

Michael Faraday

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Michael Bloomberg

You bet I did and I enjoyed it.

Melissa Etheridge

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Michael Douglas

I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.

Patricia McConnell

Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.

Ray Charles

Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

Todd Rundgren

Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.

Simon Wiesenthal

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Snoop Dogg

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on.

Snoop Dogg

They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

Snoop Dogg

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

Snoop Dogg

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

Snoop Dogg

Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly. Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed. Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

Snoop Dogg

The more medicated the more dedicated

Jodi Picoult

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

David O. McKay

Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

Daryl Gates

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.