“There was no reason for Doane to tie a ribbon on Marcelle's wrist, and that was why she laughed when he did it, and loved him for it.””
Lila
Quotes by Doane Robinson
“It could be that the wildest, strangest things in the Bible were the places where it touched earth. Doane said once that he saw a cyclone cross a river. It took the water in its path up into itself and crossed on dry ground, and it was just as white as a cloud, white as snow. Something like that would only last for a minute, but it showed you what kind of thing can happen. It would shed that water and take up leaves and branches, cats and dogs, cows if it wanted to, grown men, and it would change everything they thought they knew.””
Gilead
Doane RobinsonDoane Robinson was an influential American historian and the state historian of South Dakota, best remembered for his visionary concept of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Robinson believed that ...