Quotes About Tumbleweeds

#1. It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look.
So I fold the flap back,and write:
Tumbleweeds.

Alyson Noel

#2. I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Janet McTeer

#3. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.

Michael Connelly

#4. And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34)

Edward Abbey

#5. Contrary to popular belief, Texas is not all tumbleweeds, cacti, and horses. I haven't seen a desert yet, and the people in Houston mostly look the same as people from back home, but with the occasional set of cowboy boots.

Kristin Rae

#6. Look," I said halfheartedly. "Another one of those tumbleweeds made out of old hair weaves."
"Tumbleweave," said J.Lo.

Adam Rex

#7. You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.

Jeffery Deaver

#8. A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

Robert Bly

#9. They were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.

Roxanne St. Claire

#10. Baby, the tumbleweeds can wait.

Samantha Chase

#11. Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I got it. Some back alley taxidermy, maybe? But I think I got it at The Bay taxidermy department. Downtown Winnipeg. Next to the tumbleweeds.

Guy Maddin

#12. A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love ...

Leonard Cohen

#13. Don't mind her," Kip said to Nicki. "She's just crabby from the long ride." "Yeah, I've been riding with...I mean on...a horse's ass all day," Abbey quipped.

Shawn Keenan

#14. As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they're not about to recognize that. They'd rather fight over what kind of pet they're going to get ... It's an argument for its own sake.

David Levithan

#15. I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone.
Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues

Bob Dylan

#16. Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

Matthew Donnelly

#17. The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

Donna Karan

#18. I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

Kathleen Turner

#19. Infinite possibilities are waiting for you to notice them.

Steven Redhead

#20. It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

Dan John

#21. Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," says Haymitch.

Suzanne Collins

#22. And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#23. Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

Tamora Pierce

#24. Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

Kami Garcia