Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert. — Thomas Berry
They make a desert and call it peace. — Tacitus
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks… — Lord Byron
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part;… — Epictetus
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. — Andrew Jackson
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
In the desert, the only god is a well. — Vera Nazarian
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away… — Gautam Gambhir
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. — Mia Sara
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude… — Miller Williams
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the… — Monica Johnson
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to… — Charles Studd
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in… — Rose George
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. — Peter O'Toole
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. — Steven Michael Quezada
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in… — Hannah Simone
I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy… — Hannah Simone
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do. — Charlotte Rampling
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. — Lewis B. Smedes
The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and… — Annie Jacobsen
Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so… — Michael Ignatieff
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force… — Michael Ignatieff
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles… — Peter Benchley
I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun. — Adam Ferrara

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