“Go to the place called barren, Stand in the place called empty. And you will find God there.” — Joan Sauro Copy Share Image
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. — Lorde Copy Share Image
“...your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated mind.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“The hillside was thick with trees, the same hill we had left barren the day before.” — Ruth Emmie Lang Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
My life is like a faded leaf, My harvest dwindled to a husk: Truly my life is void and brief And tedious… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.” — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
In fact, do not try to grow cropson barren land of love, this book made things look better in the books — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.” — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A barren woman served no purpose in this kingdom. Her very reason for existing had been snatched away.” — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image