Prairie Quotes

85 Prairie quotes by 74 unique authors

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening… — Theodore Roosevelt
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky.… — Rose Wilder Lane
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born… — Geronimo
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees… — Emily Dickinson
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling… — Diane Ackerman
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. — Frances Densmore
I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America?… — Tori Amos
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood… — Vladimir Nabokov
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was… — Robert James Waller
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the… — Barack Obama
After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars — Carl Sandburg
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile… — W. Cleon Skousen
If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. — Terry Tempest Williams
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an… — Edgar Allan Poe
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it… — Betty Smith
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with… — Truman Capote
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie. — Rachel Dratch
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows… — Antoine Predock
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large… — Jack Horner
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many… — William Cullen Bryant
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought… — Philipp Meyer

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