Top 1200 Desert Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
inspector of desert water holes.
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
Unless I move to a desert island with poor reception, I'll never stop speaking out!
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.
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.
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime
Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.
I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.
The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together,
let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.
I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
