Deserts Quotes

140 quotes by 120 authors

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. — Unknown Author
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort… — Elizabeth Aston
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore… — James Kavanaugh
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,… — Edward Abbey
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect… — Nelson Mandela
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. — Margaret Bourke-White
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,… — Thabo Mbeki
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins. — Edward Bond
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their… — Aldous Huxley
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of… — Eric Burdon
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months… — Colin Fletcher
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts… — Gregory Bateson
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;… — Marsilio Ficino
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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

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