Desert Quotes · Page 11

“We both keep walking in the desert, following a fragile dream of America.”

— Terry Farish

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

— Pope Francis

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

— Dwayne Hickman

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

— Lykke Li

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

— Frank Waters

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

— Lucy Freeman

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

— Will Durant

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going…

— Ross Perot

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of…

— Annie Fellows Johnston

“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..”

— Sanhita Baruah

In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm,…

— Mark Esper

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another…

— T. E. Lawrence

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody…

— Henry Russell Sanders

I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.

— Holly Willoughby

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There are people who come home from war and want to talk about the pain, but no one wants to listen; there…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said…

— Cormac McCarthy

“As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water,…

— Anonymous

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral…

— Michael Ignatieff

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always…

— Brian Jacques

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may…

— Matthew Simpson

I still meet with friends, and I'm enjoying life at 97 here in Palm Springs. They are trying to establish a new…

— Carol Channing

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found…

— Erik Fosnes Hansen

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the…

— Candace Bushnell

Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop…

— Charles Harper Webb

Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of…

— Graham Greene

Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from…

— Robert Pattinson

“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no…

— Thomas Merton

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…

— Francis Bacon

In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the…

— Alain de Botton

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

— Bear Grylls

“In the desert, words are a waste of water. In the ocean, speech will drown one.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.”

— Anonymous Bedouin

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

— Norman Barrett

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

— Lewis B. Smedes

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

— Lykke Li

“The desert, with its endless monotony, put him to dreaming.”

— Paulo Coelho

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe