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Desert Quotes
Most Famous Desert Quotes of All Time!
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.
- Deplorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called 'Little Birds,' and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That's a 35-millimeter camera. It's huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.
- Victory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
- Beautiful Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
- Drank
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The craziest place I've probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we stayed in Amman for a night. Then we drove down for three hours into the middle of the Wadi Rum Desert, which is in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was insane.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.
- Human Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
- Grains
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- Nov 07, 2020
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
- Oceans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the outskirts of the desert in Yemen, there was a cafe with a jukebox that had 'Sunshine Superman' on it. I loved that.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made 'Desert Moon' and when I made those solo albums, I was trying not to be Styx, because I thought, 'That belongs to us.' So, I made different kinds of solo albums that were not dipping my hand back into the magic Styx jar and pulling out all the tricks - because bands, they have tricks, don't they? That's what makes them different.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020