Plains Quotes

127 Plains quotes by 103 unique authors

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense… — Buffalo Bill
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire… — Buffalo Bill
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. — Charles Frazier
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their… — Sam Walter Foss
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia… — W. Averell Harriman
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their… — Ellsworth Huntington
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of… — Ellsworth Huntington
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow… — Rudyard Kipling
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along… — Rick Perry
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the… — Jackson Pollock
I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in… — Jason Reitman
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting… — Adlai E. Stevenson
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has… — Helen Thomas
It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset… — James Wolcott
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon… — George Orwell
your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is… — Brian Jacques
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the… — N. Scott Momaday
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long,… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods… — John Muir
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If… — Patrick Henry
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… — Abraham Verghese

Who Wrote These Plains Quotes

103 authors contributed a total of 127 Plains Quotes, led by these top contributors: