Quote by Adam Hochschild

“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or…

— Adam Hochschild

“When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“The parched know -- real thirst draws rainwater from an empty sky.”

— Ivan M. Granger

“the millions of shells, rather than destroying German defenses, had churned the ground between the attackers and the defenders into a boot-sucking bog.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“I die of thirst beside the fountain.”

— Francois Villon

“They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”

— Jessamyn West

“For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs…

— Isaiah Bible ESV

“It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a…

— John Green

“A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.”

— Souad