Prairie Quotes: top 38 famous quotes about Prairie

Prairie Quotes & Sayings

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The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire. — Richard M. Nixon

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. — David F. Houston

I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie? — Sinclair Lewis

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 politicians. — William Cullen Bryant

Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire. — Rodney Dangerfield

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie. — Bob Norster

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. — Terry Tempest Williams

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 are few. — Emily Dickinson

When the lightning struck, the whole prairie would be bathed for a second in white light. — Larry McMurtry

I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie. — Scott Michael Foster

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable. — Martha Ostenso

Wheat is blond in the Steppe, yellow in the Prairie. Algae in the labs is many different brownish greens. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Her name is Maya Rudolph! She is a goddamn baby champion and she pushed her cuties out Little House on the Prairie style! — Amy Poehler

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

slam onto the dusty prairie with a back-popping thud, my blade flying from my hands and vanishing into the thigh-high grass nearby. — Sara Raasch

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. — Tim Pawlenty

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars — Carl Sandburg

The Stranger: Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom. — Fred Barnett

I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm a huge fan. They work. — Jerry Hall

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie. — Francis Parkman

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. — George McGovern

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom. — Kathleen Norris

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie's ever-present heartaches. — Andrew Galasetti

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me. — Marilynne Robinson

A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them. — Chic Murray

Word spread through the camp like a prairie — Chet Cunningham

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him. — O. Henry

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. — Ellsworth Huntington

On the prairie one can see the colour of the air. — Emily Murphy

You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips. — Jeff Foxworthy

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. — Sitting Bull

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city. — Randy Bachman

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett