Cactus Quotes

• 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

  Journey, Negative, May

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Approval Addiction”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Beautiful, Simple, Thinking

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• People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

  James Joyce

  Flower, People, Embrace

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• The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it

  Will Foley

  Attitude, Business, Positive Thinking

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• Adolescence is like cactus.

  Anais Nin

  Adolescence

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• Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Starting, Starting Point, Cushions

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• Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings

  Tre Cool

  Hurt, Hands, Feelings

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• Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

  Unknown

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• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Flower, Butterfly, Mind

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.

  Unknown

  Hurt, Love You, Loving Someone

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• 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

  Funny, Flower, Humor

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• Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

  TobyMac

  Journey, Negative, Difficult

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• The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Bigs, Stuck

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• I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Mountain, Watches

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• Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

  Enid Bagnold

  Flower, Writing, Oddities

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• 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 Horan

  Culture, Retreat, Thirsty

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

  Max De Pree

  Unique, Whales, Diversity

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

  John Diefenbaker

  Differences, Politics, Conservative

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• I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, Friendly, Why Not

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• She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Today, Tomorrow, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Secret, Needs

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• A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

  Katherine Dunham

  Art, Garden, Dancer

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• Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

  Diablo Cody

  Coyotes, Ugly, Thanks

  "Juno". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

  Edward Abbey

  Rose, Tree, Growth

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Rain, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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