Cactus Quotes

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

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Adolescence is like cactus.

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

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

The Big Cactus. I will stick you.

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

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the viewer is allowed to meditate on something that normally we don't stop and stare at, whether it's people or a cactus.

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

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

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

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.