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  • 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 (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.33, BoD – Books on Demand
  • I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

    Morning   Eye   Dark  
    Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”
  • Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.

    Water   Flying   Trying  
    "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.
  • If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

    Wine   Two   Rose  
  • The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

    Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”
  • It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  • What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

    Life   Change   Death  
  • I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.

    Fun   Thinking   Band  
  • This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

    Sarcastic   Two   Water  
  • Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

    Buffalo   Tents   Eating  
  • I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

    Musical   Band   Buffalo  
    FaceBook post by Rick James from Feb 20, 2015
  • Buffalo Bill's defunct

    Death   Bills   Buffalo  
    'Portraits' no. 8 (1923)
  • The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

    Animal   Tragedy   World  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.169, Modern Library
  • This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

  • The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.

    Wings   Meals   Buffalo  
    Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.194, Crown Archetype
  • Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

    Change   Animal   Cows  
    Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press
  • I know we'll lead the league in defense.

    Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.
  • I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

    Blow   Guitar   Play  
  • 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.

    Crazy   Games   Meat  
    Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. March 16, 2011.
  • As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.

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

  • Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo. ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many!

  • A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

  • How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

    Block   Men   Monsters  
    Source: www.americansuburbx.com
  • I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

    Years   People   Storm  
  • Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

  • A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.

    Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
  • 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.

  • [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  • So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

    Dark   Pigs   Savages  
    John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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