We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

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

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

My favorite wines are Zinfandels.

There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

Those crooks exhibit the epidermis of pachyderms. But I am prepared to fight them. I have cultivated intestinal fortitude.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.