Barren Quotes
Barren Quote of the day
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.
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.
Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
