Desert Quotes

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

I am not a collector of deserts!

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords