Quotes About The Dust Bowl

#1. As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.

Sheri L. Dew

#2. Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.

Katherine Longshore

#3. The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

Steve Earle

#4. What you're experiencing isn't a dry spell. It's a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?

Parker S. Huntington

#5. I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.

Cory Monteith

#6. I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

Kay Panabaker

#7. That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.

Susie Finkbeiner

#8. Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

Ilana Mercer

#9. We're close to where the nature preserve starts now, Charlotte says to Henry. The magic begins here. Can you feel it? She suspects he probably can't. She walks here daily, looking for something, peace mostly. The forest gives her more than she comes looking for, every time.

J.J. Brown

#10. Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

Scott Rudin

#11. Dust and dark married, creating a pillow to smother hard on our faces.

Susie Finkbeiner

#12. My feet aren't seeds so I see no reason to plant them.

Wesley Eisold

#13. The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.

Ernest Holmes

#14. I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.

Woody Guthrie

#15. My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Jennifer Garner

#16. Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

Nikolai Gogol

#17. When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.

Sen No Rikyu

#18. The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who enjoined the Apostles to 'go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.'

Pope Benedict XVI

#19. Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

Hugh MacLennan

#20. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.

I. Alan Appt