James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
Cactus quotes
Cactus
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"Adolescence is like cactus."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"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."
Takashi Murakami
Artist
"I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding."
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"Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!"
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