Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. — Jim Fowler
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. — Milton Friedman
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If… — Khalil Gibran
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. — Khalil Gibran
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert… — Baltasar Gracian
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able… — Bear Grylls
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places. — Bear Grylls
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes… — Billy Connolly
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq… — Roald Dahl
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be. — Alan Dershowitz
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. — Will Durant
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in… — Dave Eggers
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. — Jim Elliot
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. — Arthur Erickson
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a… — Richard P. Feynman
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little… — E. M. Forster
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the… — Thor Heyerdahl
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and… — John Hoeven
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of...… — Anthony Hopkins
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But… — Washington Irving
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,… — John F. Kennedy
A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes.… — Kesha
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. — Arthur Koestler

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