1.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
James Joyce
'Individuals walk over blossoms, yet just to embrace a prickly pear.'
2.
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
'A pessimistic attitude will only add to the struggles of a long and arduous road. You may be handed thorns, but you don't have to embrace them.'
3.
Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin
Youth is like a prickly pear.
4.
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
'Expectation is not a final destination but an origin - a succulent, not a pillow.'
5.
Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult
TobyMac
Dwelling on the unfavorable only exacerbates an arduous voyage.
6.
The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.
Shaquille O'Neal
'The Prickly Pear... because if you get too close, you'll be skewered.'
7.
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
I'm like a reservoir of knowledge and experience... I take in the stimulation of culture and connections with friends, then I recede to soak it up until my curiosity beckons me back.
8.
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
John Diefenbaker
'Contrasting a cactus to a conservative caucus, the spines of the former lie exposed outside while the latter's sharpness is concealed within.'
9.
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli
She was transient. She was present. She was future.
10.
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
I can recall a person declaring 'Keep your hands off the cactus!' and I wondered, 'But why? What harm could there be?' Handshaking is an amicable signal.
11.
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
Unknown
12.
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.
Peter Stafford
14.
Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.
Diablo Cody
15.
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.
Chinua Achebe
16.
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.
Richard Misrach
17.
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
Takashi Murakami
18.
In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew
Jerry Spinelli
19.
Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!
Russell T Davies
20.
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.
Christopher Titus
21.
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.
Unknown