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A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.


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A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
STEVEN BIKO The first thing I would say is . . . rip out that stupid Kentucky bluegrass and put in native grass....
DAVID SALMAN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root...
MARCUS GARVEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING When the wind blows,the grass bends.
CONFUCIUS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds...
V.E. SCHWAB I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK It is difficult to create a grass-roots movement without materials that allow people to publicly ide...
TED JACKSON No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A person without knowledge of his history is like a tree without roots.
UNKNOWN History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as...
E. L. DOCTOROW What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
CROWFOOT Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes l...
JOHN STEINBECK What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
CROWFOOT I don't see how those people are going to get in and out of there without having to drive on the gra...
ERIC PETERSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
BIBLE Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Yes, it’s tough, it’s tough, that goes without saying. But isn’t waiting itself and lo...
ANNIE DILLARD Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic v...
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Buffalo was in Pat's heart and she helped put the Buffalo Niagara name on the map.
ANDREW RUDNICK Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful functio...
URSULA K. LE GUIN It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of his...
ISAAC MARION Accept your nature, Mikhail. Accept yourself as you are.”
Mikhail’s laughter was bitter. �...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Sparklers can spark a fire. They may not stand up properly, the wind may blow them into the grass.
JASON GUNKLE Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is...
DAG HAMMARSKJöLD History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM X To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I wi...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give
BIBLE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
JOHANNES BRAHMS Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind
JOHANNES BRAHMS Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to h...
MAX BAUCUS And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
THOMAS HOOD To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind
THOMAS HOOD Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Happy is the nation without a history.
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA Happy is the nation without a history
CESARE BECCARIA The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY It's like a nesting doll of imagination! It's like a painting of a painting! It's like the wind catc...
MICHELLE CUEVAS At the Oval the ground was packed, people sitting on the grass, cheering everything; just like it wi...
FRED TRUEMAN The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm Lakota Sioux.
CHASKE SPENCER The grass in a stadium is like the stage in a theatre.
ENGELBERT LEHMACHER There are people saying Venezuela is a dictatorship country; the funny thing is that they say it on ...
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh...
THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the hea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It's like saying people are going to stop browsing on the Internet. It's idiotic.
MARK REIN They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Love is like wind to a sail, you won’t get anywhere without it; abandon ship, if you are not in th...
SCOTTIE SOMERS The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC The Fargo restaurant is doing wonderful. So is the one in Sioux Falls.
BILL NADON Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do yo...
J.K. SIMMONS The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE The buffalo hunt is dead.
JIM MCCONOUGHEY

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