#desert

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ↗

— Golda Meir

#bring #desert #east #israelis #me

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#defended #desert #drop #grains #last

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #desert #freedom #garden #guts

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#archeological #been #could #desert #expedition

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#crowd #desert #holiness #silence

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#appreciate #barren #creativity #deserts #fields

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#devout #gardens #laid #out

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#children #cold #desert #desolate #down

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#intended #keep #line #nature #never

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#car #combining #cultural #desert #ideas