Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] — Osbert Sitwell
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air — Samuel Garth
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country. — Andre Maurois
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the… — Zane Grey
I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to… — Diana Dors
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. — Ellsworth Huntington
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that… — Eugene Odum
It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite… — Terry Pratchett
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. — Albert Camus
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
If you have time to chatter,Read books.If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.If you have time to walk,Sing songs and dance.If… — Nanao Sakaki
The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection.… — Rachel Cohn
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya
If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert. — Jerry Lawler
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing… — Laurel Burch
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but… — Hod Lipson
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is… — Sheila Cassidy
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,… — Edward Abbey
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian
If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just… — Poppy Z. Brite
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out… — Learned Hand
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. — Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

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