Cactus Quotations

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

Juno MacGuff: "Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

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

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

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

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.

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

The Big Cactus. I will stick you.

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

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

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

Adolescence is like 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.