Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life. — Evan Tanner
My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert. — Arizona Muse
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... — Washington Irving
Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father… — Carlo Wolff
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
New York is the great stone desert. — Israel Zangwill
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. — Loren Eiseley
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance. — Dante Alighieri
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing… — Donald C. Peattie
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died… — Roger Mahony
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied… — Samuel Johnson
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping… — Agatha Christie
The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. — Robert Benchley
This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all,… — David Ben-Gurion
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the… — Mark Burnett
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to… — Israel Shenker
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows,… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite,… — Mohammed Dib
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. — Melina Mercouri
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like… — Edward Ruscha
I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But… — Ben Silbermann

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