Plains Quotes

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 out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling
You Women Soldier Out Wounded Remains Come Like Go Brains Left Up Roll Blow Afghanistan Plains Cut Your Rifle Jest
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. Jackson Pollock
Game Man Construction Big Building Earth Pen Say Penn Some Brush West Iron Artist Whether Mean Ore Plains Creating Molding Shovel Choose Who Things
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator. Donald Trump
Life Dreams Heart Sky Breath Born Detroit Almighty Look Up Child Same Whether Urban Plains Fill Creator Nebraska Night
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 died. Adlai Stevenson I
Lie Victory Rest Resting Down Hesitation Lay Dawn Countless Died Plains Who Millions Bones
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
Waiting Wait Decision Down Hesitation Dawn Countless Died Plains Who Sat Millions Bones
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 for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. Buffalo Bill
You Opportunity Fire Live Ways Tell Cities Kind Would Through Always Prove Go Friends Cannot Whether Plains Your Who Peaceful Lives Among
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 - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home. Derrick Jensen
Home Words Girl Other Enough Wild Would Only Generations Lightning House She Still Were Up Trample Human Tiny Afraid Grew In Other Words Storms Them Plains Her Four Nebraska Sod
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president. Helen Thomas
Best Man Past Nice Society President Our Saw Jimmy Jimmy Carter Carter He Terms Proven Contribution Decent Decent Man Plains Really Certainly Compassionate
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? Alfred de Vigny
You Gardening Garden Country Our Air France Has-Been Purest Charming Part Do You Know Know Spot Been Heaven Where Which Plains Streams Wide Watered
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. Buffalo Bill
Life Destined Lead Plains Persuaded Now
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. Charles Lyell
Meet Valley Drift Rivers Which Commonly Plains Graze Bones
Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism. Clive Sinclair
Patriotism Year Every Late Montana Out High Witnessed Audience Cavalry Led June Stood Plains Stand Last
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 buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. Ellsworth Huntington
Life Winter Impossible Made Easier Respects Almost Abundance Sort Dry Although West Any Regions Plains Much Farming Farther Many Many Respects Rains
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. Ellsworth Huntington
People Mountains Guide Although Greatest May Dwell Where Regions Plains Migration Numbers
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 blessings upon man. Ellsworth Huntington
Man Soil Mountains Other Easy Blessings Passage Metals Climate Stimulating Rocks Fertile Iron Plains Across Coal Shower Level
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. Gregory Bateson
Education Nature People Nothing Those Telling Almost Almost Nothing Redwood Forests Official Plains Deserts Things
That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many. Henry Winkler
You Women Shopping Problem Men Men And Women Too Has-Been About Since Talking How How Many Times Been Heard Caves Cunningham Times Going Moved Children Plains Many
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. Hugo Chavez
Family Farm Tree Kid Venezuela House South Up Very Grew Poor Plains Floor Palm
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. Ian Frazier
Heroic Something Idea Contemptuous Middle Place Plains Really Nowhere
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 that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. James Wolcott
Big Air Would Outlook Voices Outset Bags Headline Male Itself Mount Being Patriarchal Sent Plains Across Dedicated Presentation
I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s. Jason Aaron
History Indian Indians Always Been American Movement The History Of Plains Fascinated
I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains. Jennifer Damiano
Thankful School Year White High High School Plains Regular
There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away. Laurent Baheux
Mountains Breath Take Plains Your Deserts Away
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. Lucretius
Great Pleasant Part Over Peril Encounters Behold Warfare Plains Yours
I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'. Nancy Pickard
Setting Small Drives Hills Go Which Plains Flint
When I was a child, I was certain that I could remember what it was like to live on Venus; I could remember what it was like to live in the American Plains. I could remember. And it's ancient memory. We all have it. It's just that some of us access it more than others. Patti Smith
Memory Remember Live Others Ancient Some More Could Like Venus Access Than Child American Just Plains Us Certain
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