They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. — Gamal Abdel Nasser Copy Share Image
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“May be God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime — Stuart Adamson Copy Share Image
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . . — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“She smiled, and said, “Take care that the voice of God and the Devil sound one in the same in the desert.… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base.… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t… — Julene Bair Copy Share Image
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
His heart is a desert island… The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“imagine the desert mothers, with hair tangled tighter than their theology and breasts that flowed milk and mystic wisdom. they knew how… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
“A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile. — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image