Parched Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to…
— Robert Liparulo
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It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to…
— Colleen Houck
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Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.
— Kate Sheppard
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it;…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents…
— August Wilson
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Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who…
— Ridgely Torrence
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether…
— Hippocrates
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Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like…
— Will Hermes
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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