quotes about Cactus
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It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
-- Chinua Achebe -
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
-- Demetri Martin -
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the ***** are on the outside.
-- John Diefenbaker -
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
-- Joyce Meyer -
I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.
-- Nancy HoranSource : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books
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Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.
-- Peter StaffordSource : Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing
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The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.
-- Richard Misrach -
Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!
-- Russell T Davies -
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it
-- Will Foley -
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The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.
-- Unknown -
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
-- Unknown