Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

Research Database of Quotes

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Keywords

(Click a letter to view the keywords)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
W
X Y Z

weed

«A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it»
Author: Dogen | Keywords: weed
«Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.»
«He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a shower.»
«A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.»
Author: Doug Larson | Keywords: mastered, weed
«A weed is but an unloved flower.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | About: Love | Keywords: unloved, weed
«A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes»
«Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.»
«Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Action | Keywords: planted, plucked, weed
«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
«Grow like a weed»
Author: Proverb | About: Funny | Keywords: weed

Pages: 1 2 3 4 Next »