Quotes with plains

  • 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.

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  • Bayard Taylor A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Sam Walter Foss 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.
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  • Alfred de Vigny 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
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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 II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 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.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Buffalo Bill 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.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Buffalo Bill 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 Bills Life Story: An Autobiography
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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