Famous quotes containing the words central, clay and/or plains:
“Its easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,
Rider and horse,friend, foe,in one red
burial blent!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops wont be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it wont be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, well be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)