The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.… — Gene Autry Copy Share Image
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio that much. You know, I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
