Plains Athletic

Famous quotes containing the words plains and/or athletic:

“The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)

“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”
—Douglas Jerrold (1803–1857)