68 Overgrown Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous overgrown quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational overgrown quotes. Hopefully, these overgrown quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your overgrown knowledge!
Famous Overgrown Quotes
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. — Luther Burbank
Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. — Sun Tzu
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. — James Allen
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree. — Constantin Brancusi
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. — Maria Gowen Brooks
You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom — Janet Erskine Stuart
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. — Winston Churchill
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. — Karle Wilson Baker
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. — Karl Baker
Short Overgrown Quotes
- A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H. L. Mencken
- I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating. — Neil Gaiman
- I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need. — Patti Smith
- You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child. — Emily Yoffe
- I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery] — Ian Fleming
- Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated. — Gale Norton
- We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
People Writing About Overgrown
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Dixie Lee Ray |
26 | 243 |
 Luther Burbank |
66 | 553 |
 Sun Tzu |
454 | 6304 |
 James Allen |
103 | 2979 |
 Saint Francis de Sales |
188 | 6400 |
 Constantin Brancusi |
24 | 154 |
More Overgrown Quotes
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government - would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities. — Martin Van Buren
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am. — Mr. T
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. — Lincoln Steffens
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. — Marilyn Monroe
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. — Andrew Marvell
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support. — Tobias Smollett
These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals. — Osip Mandelstam
The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling. — Friedrich Holderlin
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. — Robert A. Heinlein
I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning. — Stefan Themerson
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat. — J. K. Rowling
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them. — Enric Sala
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. — Katherine Mansfield
The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer. — Richard M. Nixon
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed wire surrounded it, spray paint on the ancient walls claimed it as private property, and the moat where my grandfather and his men had grown crops - in desperation as the siege's hunger bit - was completely overgrown with bushes and trees. — Chris Cleave
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way. — Chris Cleave
Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe. — Dolph Schayes
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown. — William Hazlitt
Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left. — Jeremy Collier
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
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin. — Robert Jeffress
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it. — H. L. Mencken
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard. — Henry David Thoreau
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown. — Milton Friedman
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. — George Washington
Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are. — Walter Murch
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves. — Matt Taibbi
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience — John Timbs
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. — Saul Bellow
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