Parched Quotes

42 Parched quotes by 41 unique authors

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
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
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
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
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps… — Thrity Umrigar
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with… — Jean Vanier
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything… — Harper Lee
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of… — Terry Pratchett

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