Buffalo Quotes - Page 2

• We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Should Have, Desire, Range

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.33, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

  Toro Sentado

  Meat, Borders, Taste

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• GNU, s. Animal de Sudáfrica que, en su estado domesticado, se parece al caballo, al búfalo y al ciervo. En su estado salvaje es algo así como un rayo, un terremoto y un ciclón.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Animal, Earthquakes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• Faltan cuatro hombres: R., Sorel y dos emigrantes. Salieron esta mañana en busca de búfalos y aún no han aparecido; no sabemos si han muerto o se han perdido.

  Francis Parkman

  Missing You, Morning, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.57, VM eBooks

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• Quería rendir homenaje a mis influencias musicales: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, los Beatles, los Hollies.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Hollies, Musical, Pago

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• Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Hunting, Firsts, Social

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my protein. I'm a carnivore. I love my wild game and especially my buffalo meat.

  Diego Sanchez

  Crazy, Games, Meat

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. March 16, 2011.

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• [¿Qué es la vida? Es el destello de una luciérnaga en la noche.

  Pata de gallo

  Puesta de sol, nativo americano, luciérnaga

  "Envejecer en el mundo moderno: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Libro de Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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• Ser seleccionado era un honor y, en señal de respeto al miembro de la familia elegido para presentarse, las familias celebraban banquetes y regalaban preciados abrigos de castor, bolsas de tabaco acolchadas y pieles de búfalo.

  Dennis Banks

  Running, Honor, Bolsas

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• So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

  Edgar Bergen

  Book, Night, People

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• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

  Zebulon Pike

  Naked, Robes

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.188

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• Un escritor sin gatos es casi inconcebible. Es un gusto perverso, en realidad, ya que sería más fácil escribir con una manada de búfalos en la habitación que incluso con un gato; hacen nidos en las notas y muerden la punta de la pluma y caminan sobre las teclas de la máquina de escribir.

  Barbara Holland

  Writing, Cat, Animal

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, People, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.350, Hachette UK

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• The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Animal, Skins

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• I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

  Josh Holloway

  Trying, Accents

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• Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

  James Alexander Thom

  Writing, Character, Fire

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• Es como si el alma del continente llorara. ¿Por qué llora? Llora por los huesos del búfalo. Llora por la magia olvidada. Llora por la decadencia de los poetas.Llora por los negros que piensan como blancos.Llora por los indios que piensan como colonos.Llora por los niños que piensan como adultos.Llora por los libres que piensan como presos.Sobre todo, llora por las vaqueras que piensan como vaqueros.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Thinking, Cowboy

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• The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

  Theodore Parker

  Fashion, Coats, Arms

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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• The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Horse, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Pata de gallo

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• Todavía recuerdo el tacto en mi mano de la moneda americana más maravillosa jamás acuñada, una moneda de cinco centavos con un búfalo en una cara y la cabeza de un indio en la otra. Esa moneda de cinco centavos era una prueba diaria del pasado de nuestro país. ¡Que vuelva!

  Paul Engle

  País, Pasado, Manos

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• There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

  Val Kilmer

  Animal, People, Use

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• Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

  Garrison Keillor

  Towns, Small Town

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• I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

  Ted Nugent

  Blow, Guitar, Play

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• Me siento en mi escritorio
  cada noche sin un lugar al que ir
  abriendo los mapas arrugados de Milwaukee y Buffalo,
  todo Estados Unidos,
  sus cementerios, sus arbitrarios husos horarios,
  rutas como pequeñas venas, capitales como pequeñas piedras.

  Anne Sexton

  Noche, husos horarios, venas

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). "Selected Poems of Anne Sexton", p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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