Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. — Heinrich Heine
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant… — John Dryden
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the… — Temple Grandin
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed… — Edwin Louis Cole
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. — Marguerite Duras
Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. — Arthur Helps
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and… — Omar Khayyam
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had… — T.E. Lawrence
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for… — Peggy Noonan
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. — Louis Pasteur
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren… — Shimon Peres
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. — Quintilian
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of… — Gary Zukav
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and… — Arthur Golden
his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel… — Kevin Brooks
I didn't remember what month that was, or what year even. I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a… — Khaled Hosseini
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes,… — Jerry Spinelli
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy

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