Quotes About Cactus

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

in Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single flower to bloom. And If you would be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven … This is the faith in God the cactus has.

The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Surprise is a near-sighted porcupine fallin' in love with a cactus.

People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

I packed my stuff, left my cactus BILLY with the neighbors, and got a taxi to the bus station.

You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive two hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley.

A tumble from the rocks would probably land us in a cactus — and anyone who's ever tried to tangle with a teddy bear cactus knows there's a whole lot more bear than teddy to it.

Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.

When I was in Mexico, I was told how mescaline was extracted from the peyote cactus.

Cecilia had unleashed her blood in the bath, Amy Schraff said, because the ancient Romans had done that when life became unbearable, and she thought when Dominic heard about it, on the highway, amid the cactus, he would realize that it was she who loved him.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the fanciest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.

We walked in silence. Yellow blooms had appeared on a cactus, and for some reason that made me incredibly sad. The purple of the mountains flowed like watercolour. (P. 103) ~ Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

The word for patience in Arabic is 'cactus'. They have the same meaning -'to endure thirst'.

After many years as barbaric wanderers, the Aztecs were given a heavenly sign, as they had expected. For it had been foretold that at some time during their wanderings an eagle with a snake in its mouth would be seen perched on a cactus. Following the legend, the Aztecs founded a city where an eagle appeared, naming the spot Tenochtitlán.

Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus?

You know you're an Arizona native when you "hug" a cactus only once in your lifetime.

The atmosphere was so dull, the cactus I brought into work died. I was certain it died of boredom.