Desert Quotes
Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?
When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.
This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.
I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other
If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?
If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.
Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.
No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.