Quotes with desert

Quotes 21 till 40 of 40.

  • Golda Meir 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!
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Edward Young Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Golda Meir Moses took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.
    New York Times 10-6-1973
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carole King Now ain't it good to know
    That you've got a friend
    When People can be so cold.
    They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you.
    And take your soul if you let them.
    Oh, but don't you let them.
    Tapestry (1971) Youve Got a Friend
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Will Durant Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Bill Viola Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Steven Wright Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Koestler 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.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Robert Frost They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bill Gross When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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