Parched Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
— Patricia A. McKillip
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He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he…
— John Owen
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She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
— Kate Morton
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You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask…
— Frederic Bastiat
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I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic,…
— Tammara Webber
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At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named…
— Haruki Murakami
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Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t be a hero. 
— Rick Riordan
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Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched…
— Heraclitus
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Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.
— Donald Worster
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Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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With few drops, Wet my throat parched Let my drain veins Soak with rain.. Did it make any sense?:P..naaa:P
— Zarnab
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The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time…
— William John Wills
Who Wrote These Parched Quotes
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