Jacques Chirac/first Cohabitation 1986-1988 and Desert Crossing

Famous quotes containing the words cohabitation, desert and/or crossing:

    Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
    John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

    Bodhidharma sailing the Yangtze on a reed
    Lenin in a sealed train through Germany
    Hsuan Tsang, crossing the Pamirs
    Joseph, Crazy Horse, living the last free
    starving high-country winter of their tribes.
    Surrender into freedom revolt into slavery—
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)