Rain In Desert Quotes

#1. The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Zeno Of Elea

#2. Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

William Shakespeare

#3. A flower blooming in the desert has greater strength than a tree flourishing in a rain forest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. The earth spins further from help. Beyond us the heart monitors go on, the fluorescent lights buzz, the commentators shout, the casino leaves fall into the desert, sirens blare. But all we hear is the rain.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#6. I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

Niki Burnham

#7. I believe in movement. I believe in that lighthearted balloon, the world. I believe in midnight and the hour of noon. But what else do I believe in? Sometimes everything. Sometimes nothing. It fluctuates like light flitting over a pond.

Patti Smith

#8. The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

#9. You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

#10. For the first time in his life he believed without reservation in the existence of a kind and generous God, as desert thirst teaches one to believe in rain.

Anthony Marra

#11. There is helium in his tone of voice, a lightness that means mischief.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. There I lay with my belly to the sky and with the rain soaking into me like I was a desert.

Doris Piserchia

#13. The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Tahir Shah

#14. I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Joy Harjo

#15. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#16. A little sun, a little rain,
A soft wind blowing from the west,
And woods and fields are sweet again,
And warmth within the mountain's breast

A little love, a little trust,
A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
And life as dry as desert dust,
Is fresher than a mountain stream.

Stopford Brooke

#17. One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.

Mike Bond

#18. I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

Ron Pope

#19. Encouragement from any source is like a drop of rain upon a parched desert. Thanks to all the many others who rained on me when I needed it, and even when I foolishly thought I didn't.
(acknowledgements in The P.U.R.E.)

Claire Gillian

#20. If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.

Jerry Lawler

#21. The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence ...

Pablo Neruda

#22. Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

Starhawk

#23. I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

Iain Duncan Smith

#24. We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

Karen Thompson Walker