Mounted Quotes
67 quotes by 58 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
— William Wordsworth
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He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than…
— James Russell Lowell
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
— Ben Jonson
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The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
— Buffalo Bill
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Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments…
— Kathy Griffin
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Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen…
— Jared Diamond
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'.…
— Barack Obama
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no…
— William Wordsworth
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life…
— Alan Lightman
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and…
— Gertrude Stein
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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
— David Weber
Who Wrote These Mounted Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 67 Mounted Quotes, led by these top contributors: