Deserts Quotes
140 Deserts quotes by 120 unique authors
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Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
— Margaret Bourke-White
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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
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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
— Edward Bond
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[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
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The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human…
— Frederick Lenz
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I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his…
— John Singer Sargent
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Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source…
— Eric Burdon
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
— Antonia Fraser
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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt…
— Lynn Andrews
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
— Victor Hugo
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The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is…
— John Dryden
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To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with…
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit…
— Frederick Lenz
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Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
— Derrick Jensen
Who Wrote These Deserts Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 140 Deserts Quotes, led by these top contributors: