Desert Quotes

I'm a totally desert person.

— Udo Kier

“True understanding lies beyond the desert”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“lifes short eat desert first ”

— No noted

Life is short...eat desert first!

— Wendy Mass

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

She laughed, and the desert sang.

— Jerry Spinelli

A bird, music and food -desert island items

— Michael Johnson

They make a desert and call it peace.

— Tacitus

I can't eat anymore, I'm full! Do you want any desert? YESSS!

— Anonymous

“Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.”

— Emil M. Cioran

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

— Dean Koontz

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

— Don Van Vliet

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

— Peter O'Toole

“A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Fish would be so sad if they ever found out about desert

— Murali Iyengar

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the…

— Christian Morgenstern

I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people…

— Park Yeon-mi

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a…

— Nathaniel Branden

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

— Julia Ward Howe

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

— Edward Abbey

There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding…

— Sarah Hall

Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road…

— Trevor Paglen

The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a…

— Guus Kuijer

Fiona Bruce isn't some token middle-aged woman at the BBC. Alongside her, at 52, my former running partner Sophie Raworth is a…

— Susanna Reid

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,…

— Edward Abbey

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually…

— Bruce Feiler

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a…

— Wilfred Thesiger

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…

— Edward Abbey

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a…

— Ted Dekker

“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once,…

— Stephen King

In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his…

— Henry David Thoreau

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…

— Francois Mauriac

Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making…

— Tom Kundig

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by…

— Herman Melville