Barren Quotes

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

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 it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

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.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.