Desert Quotations

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

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 and in the plains.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you can go and buy some macaroons to have afterwards.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Nobody is going to desert this little boy at this time.

Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuch as the mind of no man is a unit, but is a community of mental states that influence one another.

Right now in California we gain 40,000 new acres of desert every year, with all the building and the people coming in... housing going up like crazy.

If they want to put down in some part of the desert surrounded by lions, jackals and other dangerous animals, then we will do it.

There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.

Mount Desert is a key member of our partnership. We would hate to see that partnership dissolve.

So it's a celebration of our new release, and the fact that we're old. But desert plants are old and beautiful.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

I am not a collector of deserts!

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

He just disappeared. He's probably buried out in the middle of the desert somewhere.

Growing up here, it was a lot different. You go out and see desert and mountains. When I first arrived there, I didn't think I would like it, but being out there for almost four years, it's incredible. The living is great.

I did mention to Kevin before the game that his state tournament career started with Desert knocking us out in the quarters. He didn't want it to end that way.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

If it doesn't rain in the next 10 days or so, there will be no wheat in the northeast Texas area. What little bit did come up is dying. It's like a desert here this year.

I believe the administration's policy to store the waste in a facility 2,000 feet below ground in the Nevada desert remains the best alternative,

But because that option does not appear to be legally or politically viable, I believe the administration's policy to store the waste in a facility 2,000 feet below ground in the Nevada desert remains the best alternative. Should a politically viable alternative emerge, I will be willing to consider it.

I felt like the diva. I felt like the princess. When we're out in the middle of the desert and there's a guy whose job it is - some poor PA, who's been hired for the day - to hold an umbrella over my head and carry water for me to drink... I was like, gosh, I don't think the Queen of England has somebody following her around with an umbrella.

I am glad people are reading our editorials and paying attention to our coverage of Desert Hot Springs, ... We don't have issues with Desert Hot Springs. We do have an obligation to be a watchdog.

He woke up this morning complaining of lower intestinal problems and was taken by ambulance to the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for emergency medical attention.

Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

There is no greater desert than that of life.

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. We should have more than one million particles larger than one micron in diameter.