Quotes of: Prairies Keyword

Brian: [after trying a prairie oyster for the first time] Peppermint prairie oysters? Sally: Oh, you got the toothpaste glass! [laughs a little]

Cabaret

Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right." "If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.

Under a Prairie Moon

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Stephen Kinzer

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

Joshua tried to find the right words to explain how things were--how they'd always been. "It's like... prairie dogs." Ben quirked an eyebrow at him. "You see the holes. 'N' you know the dogs are around, even if you don't see the dogs themselves." "Wh...

A Prairie Dog's Love Song

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze free...

Philipp Meyer

Now, whatever you do, don't say anything, because no one must know that Liberace is gay." "Excuse me?" I said. "I'm eight. I know he's gay.

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Cities on the ocean have a choice whether to turn their faces or their backs to the water, lining the shore either with pretty hotels and rich homes or dim warehouses, narrow streets, and greasy piers. All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, ho...

Joseph Bottum

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like ...

Patricia MacLachlan

Michael tousled my hair and said, "Remember, no more skateboards, right?" And then this gem: "If you ever break your arm skateboarding again..." He paused, flashing me a dimpled Charles Ingalls grin, which then suddenly disappeared. "I'll break the o...

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Yet Katie held fast to the dream that perhaps there were men in the world who appreciated good women - men capable of loving a woman enough to die for her. Something had to inspire the heroes in fairy tales and books. Her Aunt Augusta always said it ...

The Prairie Prince

I guess I might be bi-curious," Ben said quietly." "What?" "I said I could be sorta bi-curious," Ben said loudly. "That's someone who is fundamentally straight but is curious about sex with men." Joshua grunted his opinion of that. "You've been check...

A Prairie Dog's Love Song

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

Randy Bachman

So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. "It must be a free child," they said to each other. "It must not be a child standing still all its life on a stree...

Carl Sandburg

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Buffalo Bill

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

Scott Michael Foster

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

George McGovern

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

Francis Parkman

The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.

Verne Troyer

Man at Prairie Crossing: That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.

North by Northwest