Plains Quotes

127 Plains quotes by 103 unique authors

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either. — Vera Nazarian
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.… — Scott Westerfeld
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying… — Charles Dickens
Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras? — Lora Leigh
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago… — Derrick Jensen
My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family. — Jennifer Damiano
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide… — Ted Danson
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust… — Sheri L. Dew
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft… — Ellsworth Huntington
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell
Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile… — Francis Parkman
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. — Sam Ewing
We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Lancelot: When I was a boy, my village was attacked by raiders from the northern plains. They were slaughtered where they stood, my father, my… — Unknown Author
Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died. — Unknown Author
We fought him hard we fought him well. Out on the plains we gave him hell but many came too much for Cree. Oh will… — Iron Maiden
Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes. Galloping hard on the plains. Chasing the redskins back to their holes. Fighting them at their own game. — Iron Maiden
No. There is still hope for Frodo. He needs time... and safe passage across the plains of Gorgoroth. We can give him that. — Aragorn
1000 miles seems pretty far but they've got plains and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way. — Unknown Author
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and naked… — John Wesley Powell
Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the… — Unknown Author
When I say artist I don't meanin the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether itbe the plains… — Jackson Pollock
He had seen the end of an era,the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So… — Willa Cather

Who Wrote These Plains Quotes

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