Desert Quotes

Desert Quote of the day

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.