Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity… — Aron Ralston
Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in… — Roger Scruton
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. — Plato
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. — Unknown Author
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out… — Jim Rohn
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in â€¦ the little town in which I grew up. â€¦ Quite early… — Richard McKenna
Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and… — L. Tom Perry
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort… — Elizabeth Aston
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore… — James Kavanaugh
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who… — Angeles Arrien
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way… — Rae Armantrout
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead — Unknown Author
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go… — William S. Burroughs

Who Wrote These Desert Quotes

707 authors contributed a total of 963 Desert Quotes, led by these top contributors: