Desert Quotes

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

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.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

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

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

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

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

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

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

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

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

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

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.