Plains Quotes

127 Plains quotes by 103 unique authors

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather… — George Armstrong Custer
That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the… — Kent Haruf
Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees and everything else… — Ted Kooser
When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget. — Unknown Author
Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a… — Unknown Author
Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels… — Carl Safina
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I… — Charles Lindbergh
Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I… — Clyde Edgerton
When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell… — Zola Budd
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. — Henry Beston
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low… — Heinrich Harrer
Now, I think our prophet today is telling all of us, in this day and time, to go and bring in those people who are… — James E. Faust
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. — Ellsworth Huntington
Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains. — Mariee Sioux
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto… — Jack Handey
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation. — Ben Jonson
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting… — Malcolm Wells
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in… — Walther Rathenau
Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the… — Lloyd C. Douglas
God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is… — Martin Prechtel
If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.… — Marc Reisner
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long… — Isak Dinesen
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne… — Isak Dinesen
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as… — Lynn Culbreath Noel

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