People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

— Anonymous

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall…

— James Joyce

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

— Takashi Murakami

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Well what I was going to say was that it reminds me of us because a cactus can grow and thrive without a lot…

— Rebecca Bloom

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf…

— Jerry Spinelli

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an…

— Edmund White

John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for…

— David Wong

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

— Demetri Martin

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

— Christopher Titus

“What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.”

— Kathleen Peacock

The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is…

— Richard Misrach

I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy…

— Ilona Andrews

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.…

— Vera Nazarian

There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with…

— Mitch Hedberg