Steppes Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.…
— Bill McKibben
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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
— Per Petterson
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
— Jean Dubuffet
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Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.
— Genghis Khan
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Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the…
— Edith Hall
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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers…
— Paddy Ashdown
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A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes,…
— Sijie Dai
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We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out…
— Learned Hand
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There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Take me with you - with you in your dreams Far till to the silver clouds, Reach me your hand And let us move on…
— Fatima Fatimzahra
Who Wrote These Steppes Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Steppes Quotes as follows: