Plains Quotes
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Plains Quotes & Sayings
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It is a region of high plains and of mountains, having limited fertility but esteemed for natural beauty. Its
— Robert A. Heinlein
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
— Edmund Sears
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?
— William Watson
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
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
— Samuel Wilberforce
Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!
— Jez Butterworth
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
— Ellsworth Huntington
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
— Anna Akhmatova
Sombre and rich, the skies;Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson
Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way
— Louis L'Amour
In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.
— John Davidson
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 would be just a human being.
— Clyde Edgerton
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
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
— Sam Walter Foss
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.
— Francine Rivers
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there.
— Truman Capote
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
— Ambrose Bierce
Ria snorted. Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are theysupposed to mate? The zebras? — Lora Leigh
The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.
— Mao Zedong
I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.
— Ben Jonson
Death and worse happened on the plains.
— Larry McMurtry
I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.
— Dorothy Wordsworth
Morning mists skulked over the river.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
I've lived out West some ... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
— Charles Frazier
Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.
— Michael Pare
So think of the American Great Plains as one more reminder that we can find home again.
— Dan Flores
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
— Kathleen Norris
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
— Lucretius
Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains.
— Mariee Sioux
Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.
— Jennifer Damiano
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.
— Bill Bryson
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.
— Isa Boletini
The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.
— Alexis Tsipras
Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
— Alan Jay Lerner
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
— Charles Lyell
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains ...
— Theodore Roosevelt
Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any.
— Larry McMurtry
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Aomame imagined the carefree winds sweeping across the plains of Bohemia and thought about the vicissitudes of history.
— Haruki Murakami
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
— Sinclair Lewis
Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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 E. Stevenson
Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.
— Thomas D. Isern
We admire the cold peaks of the mountains but we live in the hot paradises of the plains!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life
— Walter P. Webb
It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
— Kent Haruf
She left my world spinninglike windmills
on the plains of la Mancha. — Stephen Brooke
