Plains Quotes

127 quotes by 110 authors

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. — Buffalo Bill
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. — Daniel Boone
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with… — Hugo Chavez
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains… — Joseph F. Lamb
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. — Lucretius
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.… — Bill McKibben
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the… — Lance Armstrong
I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of… — Dorothy Wordsworth
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are… — Stephen Coonts
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. — Michael Pare
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such… — N. Scott Momaday
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered… — Alfred de Vigny
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come… — Carl Sandburg
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and… — Luther Standing Bear
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the… — Arthur Carhart
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see… — Ciaran Carson

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