Desert Quotes - page 17

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? (Dejan Stojanovic)
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. View quote
Denis Kearney
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert. View quote
Doug Davidson
I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around. View quote
Dwight Howard
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. View quote
Gautam Gambhir
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. View quote
Haniel Long
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. View quote
Jim C. Walton
As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special. View quote
Jim Sturgess
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. View quote
Kesha
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. View quote
Liya Kebede
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. (Jean-Luc Bilodeau)
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant. View quote
Jennifer Rubin
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. View quote
James E. Rogers
Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM. View quote
Lesley Manville
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected. View quote
Martin Van Creveld
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough. View quote
Mary Hunter Austin
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark. View quote
Mia Sara
I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan. View quote
Mickey Rivers
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed. View quote
Miller Williams
Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.' View quote
Morgan Fairchild
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. (Morton Hunt)
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. View quote
Robert Stack
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. View quote
Richard Engel
My mum's from Broome, so I'm a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I'm not necessarily in the water. View quote
Shari Sebbens
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. View quote
Steven Michael Quezada