Plains Quotes
127 Plains quotes by 103 unique authors
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You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What…
— Ronald Reagan
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Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.…
— Hazel Hawke
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The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the…
— E. Urner Goodman
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That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you…
— Henry Winkler
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts…
— Gregory Bateson
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It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they…
— Charles Dickens
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The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the…
— Charles Dickens
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You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's…
— Joseph P. Allen
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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,…
— Henry Beston
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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.
— Li Shangyin
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Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids…
— Harvey Broome
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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet,…
— Camille Flammarion
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The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the…
— Luther Standing Bear
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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;…
— Philip James Bailey
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A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs…
— H P Lovecraft
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All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or…
— John Muir
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...
— Theodore Roosevelt
Who Wrote These Plains Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 127 Plains Quotes, led by these top contributors: