Quotes About Weeding

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

In Maie get a weede hooke, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weedes as the corne doth not love. Slack never thy weeding, for dearth nor for cheape, The corne shall reward it er ever ye reape. [Thomas Tusser, 'Five hundred points of husbandry: directing what corn, grass, is proper to be sown: what trees to be planted: how land is to be improved: with with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year' (1557).]

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.

The smell of thyme was pungent in the air. It grew wild by the roadside. Thyme improves the memory, Joe used to say. He used to make a syrup out of it, keeping it in a bottle in the pantry. Two tablespoonsful every morning before breakfast. That clear greenish liquid smelled exactly like the night air over Lansquenet, crisp and earthy and nostalgic, like a summer day's weeding in the herb garden, and the radio on...

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

When you take an antibiotic, you tend to wipe out a lot of good bacteria while trying to get at the bad ones. It's like weeding with a bulldozer instead of a trowel.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate," wrote Galton, "but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding." Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents "for the purpose of restricting their opportunities for producing low-class offspring." Breeding had become weeding.