High Desert Quotes

#1. I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Harry Reid

#2. The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Campbell Scott

#3. Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

Lily Koppel

#4. I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Stephen King

#5. The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Norman Mailer

#6. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

William Shakespeare

#7. I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

Wilfred Thesiger

#8. The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

Kathleen Norris

#9. In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.

Frederick Lenz

#10. And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city
a terrifying new era approaching, blurring our dreams.

Denis Johnson

#11. Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

Avery Flynn

#12. Life - standing under the high heat of the desert sun, without a cloud in the bright

Lauren Blakely

#13. Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

Marge Piercy