Quotes about Desert

The Fremen must be brave to live at the edge of that desert. By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.

I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.

A predawn hush had come over the desert basin. He looked up. Straight overhead, the stars were a sequin shawl flung over blue-black. Low on the southern horizon, the night's second moon peered through a thin dust haze--an unbelieving moon that looked at him with a cynical light.

AMBIGU  (A'MBIGU)   n.s.[French.]An entertainment, consisting not of regular courses, but of a medley of dishes set on together. When straiten'd in your time, and servants few,You'd richly then compose an ambigu;Where first and second course, and your desert,All in our single table have their part.King'sArt of Cookery.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub in the desert, And jshall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, kIn a salt land which is not inhabited.

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

Jesus looked at these men who had been working hard without relief and said, You deserve a break today. Let's get some rest. Let's take some time off. So they got into a boat, rowed to the other side of the lake, and went out to the desert to rest.

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.

But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.