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Quotes About Overgrown

Lots of archaeology. Most of it hidden. Overgrown castle mounds and tumps. And hill forts. No official history – like no National Trust stuff, but it's all around you, unlabelled. You need to know what you're looking for. I like that.
~ Phil Rickman
Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.
~ James MacDonald
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
~ Ian Fleming
Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
~ Monty Don
You'll strip in front of a vampire when you don't even know his name?" "You're right! So what's your name?" "My answer will be as forthcoming as yours. What do you want it to be?" "Some kind of name that fits a battle-scarred, overgrown vampire warlord.
~ Kresley Cole
The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
~ Karel Capek
I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up inside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor.
~ Margaret Atwood
You can sow the seeds of distrust everywhere, and lose yourself in an overgrown field.
~ Anne Rice
It was a drunken labyrinth of a garden gone wild under the naked night.
~ Anne Rice
overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
~ George Washington
Instead, she'd let it get even more overgrown and cobwebbed. We'd always joked that it would be a good place to bury a body. It couldn't be.
~ Gillian Flynn
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
~ George Washington
It is difficult to cultivate a healthy relationship in a landscape overgrown with blame, lack of trust, and betrayal
~ Saji Ijiyemi
One afternoon we needed to urge the barge between the narrowing banks of the Romford Canal, my sister and I stationed on opposite sides of the deck yelling directions to The Darter at the wheel. The last hundred yards of the cut were almost fully overgrown. At its end there was a lorry waiting, and two men approached the boat and unloaded the boxes wordlessly
~ Michael Ondaatje
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.
~ Sophie Hannah
In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
~ Thomas Harris
The definition of marriage? When a woman adopts an overgrown man-child who cannot be handled by his parents any longer.
~ Gena Showalter
I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.
~ Charles Bukowski
This lawn hasn't been mowed all summer, and it's August
~ Carpenter Greg Zanis
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
~ George Washington
The garden, for long untended, was an overgrown riot of uninhibited flowers and weeds in which whirled, squeaked, rustled
~ Gerald Durrell
I went round the side of the house, and stared at the garden in horror. The ivy had almost taken over. There were still flowers in the borders, but weeds rioted everywhere, choking all the blooms. The stream still trickled in spite of vast tangles of waterweed. I followed it to the end of the garden. The little Japanese house was lurid green with moss. I sat on the cold seat and shut my eyes tight.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
The heart hacked out of the center of an overgrown hedge with an ax To live beyond the brain
~ Laura Kasischke