Cavalry Quotes - Page 2

• Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

  Jacob Aagaard

  Queens, Archer, Knights

  6 Copy quote

• To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fighting, Bravery, Sorrow

  c.1859 Complete Poems, no.126 (first published 1890).

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Kissing, Men

  22 Copy quote

• The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Horse, Numbers, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.239

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Army, World

  5 Copy quote

• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Ends, Middle

  11 Copy quote

• Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eugenics, Leader, Mind

  6 Copy quote

• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Children, War

  13 Copy quote

• If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Atheism, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Horse, Friendly, Air Power

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Work Out, Movement

  4 Copy quote

• If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Struggle, Law, Phases

  "Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Politics, Sides

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

  Jared Diamond

  Horse, Rhinos, Made

  8 Copy quote

• [Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Europe, Improvement

  8 Copy quote

• To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Country, Fall, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Horse, Thinking, Civilization

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

  Robert Solow

  Games, Battle, Want

  "Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics". Book by Arjo Klamer, 1983.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Fire, Bystanders

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.23

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Couple, Passion, Heart

  7 Copy quote

• I'm always struck, when I play characters from previous centuries, how young they were when they did what they did. That's what I need to get used to - when I portrayed a Russian cavalry solider in 'War & Peace,' he was in his teens. When I do a period piece, that's the hardest thing for me to get my head around.

  Jack Lowden

  Character

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

  25 Copy quote

• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Guests, Santa, Might

  4 Copy quote