Mounted Quotes

67 Mounted quotes by 58 unique authors

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
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
[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
Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse. — William Cowper
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
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
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth? — Robert Frost
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
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
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
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
African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen. — Jared Diamond
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are… — Van Jones
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched… — Kit Williams
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had… — Nikos Kazantzakis
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed… — Vance Havner
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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