Mounted Quotes

67 Mounted quotes by 58 unique authors

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. — William Wordsworth
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
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. — Ben Jonson
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. — Buffalo Bill
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted. — David Weber
This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through… — Che Guevara
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his… — Homer
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat… — Eugene B. Sledge
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… — Virginia Woolf
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond
His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be… — Larissa Ione
Barrons knows virtually everything about me. I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere he has a little file that encompasses my entire life to date, with… — Karen Marie Moning
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene,… — John L. Parker Jr.

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