Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sorin Cerin

There is no greater desert than that of life.

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

J. Horton

I love the Desert Survivors, because this group goes to all those places other people just drive past. And I've grown to love the desert because of all its wide-open spaces. They provide me with a true sense of peacefulness and freedom.

Dee Boersma

The islands were very lush, green and verdant, which is unusual. It's like the ocean is the desert right now and the land is the garden. It's usually the other way around.

Henry Rollins

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Libba Bray

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Og Mandino

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

Karen Olson

Kids don't leave without a green slip in their hands.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Richard Alley

Greenland presently makes the largest contribution to sea level rise,

Federico Lorca

Green how I love you green.Green wind.Green boughs.The ship on the seaAnd the horse on the mountain.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Linda Larson

Here in Green Bay, there's a terrific need. But this is an opportunity for me to do something internationally and globally. And I feel like it's a calling.

John Daly

I three-putted 17 (from 30 feet) before the 72 holes was up, and the green on 17 was a lot quicker than any green all day,

David Cole

There is a increased realization that a green revolution is about to begin, ... This is a real shift in technology.

William Wordsworth

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

Richard Pryor

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

William Dampier

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Zora Neale Hurston

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

Rebecca Solnit

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

Rick Riordan

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

Rick Riordan

Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

Samantha Barks

I grew up on a tiny little island.

Sadako Ogata

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard P. Feynman

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

Richard Wilbur

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Russell Brand

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.