I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can sweep in heroically like the Seventh Cavalry.’ Burning tipis… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got… — Jamie Drummond Copy Share Image
In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford Copy Share Image
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. — Jacob Aagaard Copy Share Image
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh Copy Share Image
“His eyes are still closed, voice soft and near. Just for me. 'I heard the cavalry when you sat beside me that… — Joanne Bischof Copy Share Image
“Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have… — Monica Holloway Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“However, the insects had a secret weapon. As if a silent signal had been dispatched, the cavalry arrived in the form of… — Ben Hammott Copy Share Image
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image