Top 205 Plains Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
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.
Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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.
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.
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.
All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.
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.
I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns.
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.
Over the vast plains of the open ocean, where wave lines may be the only markers, seabirds, including albatrosses, manage to find food.
In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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.
In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!
There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.
Death and worse happened on the plains.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under;
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains.
The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
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.
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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.
I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of that. I get really into it, and then I put it down, but it's surrounding me.
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.
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.
I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.
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.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.
I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?
We've spent more than 200 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to protect the Liverpool Plains.
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.
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.
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!
Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!