Platte Quotes

#1. Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way

Louis L'Amour

#2. Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Robert McNamara

#3. That's called prostitution, Aria.

Ashley Nicole

#4. I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

Jodi Picoult

#5. there was such a thing as ice-nine. And

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

Willa Cather

#7. I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Craig Charles

#8. Dirk an I tried to learn Klingon, but it sounded like we were choking on cabbage. The Neighbors called nine-one-one

Platte F. Clark

#9. Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

Soroosh Shahrivar

#10. Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose

#11. If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

Francis Parkman

#13. As we medical students saw it, the failure of those around Ivan Ilyich to offer comfort or to acknowledge what is happening to him was a failure of character and culture.

Atul Gawande

#14. Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Robert Toombs