Quotes about Barren

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. Votes: 5

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. Votes: 4

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. Votes: 4

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Votes: 4

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Votes: 4

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Votes: 4

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. Votes: 4

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Votes: 4

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. Votes: 4

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. Votes: 4

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. Votes: 3

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. Votes: 3

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? Votes: 3

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. Votes: 3

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. Votes: 3

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. Votes: 3

Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice.He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb repliedSoren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion." Votes: 3

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Votes: 1

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Votes: 1

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. Votes: 1

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. Votes: 1

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world. Votes: 1

People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city. Votes: 1

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. Votes: 1

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. Votes: 1

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens] Votes: 0

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice. Votes: 0

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. Votes: 0

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. Votes: 0

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. Votes: 0

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. Votes: 0

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy. Votes: 0

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. Votes: 0

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Votes: 0

Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape. Votes: 0

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. Votes: 0

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. Votes: 0

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden Votes: 0

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. Votes: 0

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. Votes: 0

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. Votes: 0

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Votes: 0

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth. Votes: 0

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost! Votes: 0

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. Votes: 0

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren. Votes: 0

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. Votes: 0

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Votes: 0

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. Votes: 0

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. Votes: 0

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. Votes: 0

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. Votes: 0

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing Votes: 0

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. Votes: 0

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. Votes: 0

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire. Votes: 0

whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism. Votes: 0

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. Votes: 0

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water. Votes: 0

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. Votes: 0

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. Votes: 0

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. Votes: 0

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. Votes: 0

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. Votes: 0

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. Votes: 0

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. Votes: 0

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. Votes: 0

But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.... Votes: 0

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. Votes: 0

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. Votes: 0

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. Votes: 0

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe? Votes: 0

Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees. Votes: 0

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. Votes: 0

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung. Votes: 0

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories. Votes: 0

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. Votes: 0

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. Votes: 0

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. Votes: 0

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. Votes: 0

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. Votes: 0

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. Votes: 0

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. Votes: 0

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. Votes: 0

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? Votes: 0

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands. Votes: 0

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture. Votes: 0

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation. Votes: 0

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? Votes: 0

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. Votes: 0

I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality. Votes: 0

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. Votes: 0

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave. Votes: 0

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. Votes: 0

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion. Votes: 0

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable. Votes: 0

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master. Votes: 0

Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape. Votes: 0

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention. Votes: 0

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. Votes: 0

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock. Votes: 0

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives. Votes: 0

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe. Votes: 0

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. Votes: 0