Mounted Quotes
67 quotes by 58 authors
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet…
— Buffalo Bill
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to…
— Alistair Cooke
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I…
— Francis Collins
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Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
— William Cowper
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To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
— James Russell Lowell
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
— Robert Frost
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If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is…
— Dashiell Hammett
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To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
— Brian D. McLaren
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Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not…
— Brian D. McLaren
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
— Chris Hedges
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African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
— Jared Diamond
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I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment…
— Edward Carpenter
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At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can…
— Arthur Fremantle
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make…
— Christopher Hibbert
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We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses' from the mounted…
— Mary Tyler Moore
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As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending…
— Byron York
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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's…
— Tony Hoagland
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Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Mounted Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 67 Mounted Quotes, led by these top contributors: