Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required… — John Flanagan
She laughed, and the desert sang. — Jerry Spinelli
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,… — W G Sebald
I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers… — Stephen King
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because… — David Rakoff
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from… — John Muir
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women… — Candace Bushnell
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. — Jane Austen
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many… — Neil Gaiman
I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived… — Francesca Lia Block
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things… — Waris Dirie
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. — Andrew Carnegie
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were… — Wendell Berry
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that… — Stephen Hawking
You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beauty. You had never met anyone so fascinating. You… — Jerry Spinelli
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the… — C.S. Lewis
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.… — Lisa Ann Sandell
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes… — T.E. Lawrence
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I… — Deb Caletti
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. — Michael Ondaatje
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje
The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right… — Karen Kingsbury

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