Cactus Quotes

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

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

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Place
  • Starting

• I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Plant
  • Collections
  • Insects

• In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today’s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • People
  • Age
  • Today

• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

  

  James Burrows
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Father

• The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

  

  James Turrell
  • Cactus

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hurt
  • Love You
  • Loving Someone

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Paradise

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

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Hand
  • Hurt
  • Cactus

• 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
  • Like
  • Trunk
  • Cactus

• Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • History
  • Cactus

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

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Politics
  • Conservative
  • Caucus

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Wish
  • Competition
  • Plant

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

  

  Will Foley
  • World
  • Sit
  • Cactus