Riding Quotes - Page 28

• A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a 'Leave it to Beaver' type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

  Jake Roberts

  Children, Father, Love You

  Interview with Jon Robinson, December 18, 2003.

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• Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.

  Sandra Gulland

  Splendid, Said, Thrilling

  Sandra Gulland (2009). “Mistress of the Sun: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Zebras, Butterfly, Thinking

  Song: Little Wing

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• Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions.  A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty.  So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.

  Nelly

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Horse, Men, Thinking

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• Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Maintenance, Classic

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

  Mark Cavendish

  Rain, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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• The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

  Alex Comfort

  Sex, Age, Bicycle

  Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

  Harvey Cox

  Horse, May, Turns

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• There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.

  Han Nolan

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  Han Nolan (2014). “Dancing on the Edge”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Equestrian, Prancing

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?

  Bill Watterson

  Pigs, Three, Stories

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• I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

  Tom Waits

  Slumps

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Horse, Cowboy, Yarn

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• The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Ghost, Problem, Shoulders

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

  Stephen Roche

  Beautiful, Grandfather, Want

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• I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!

  Katie Price

  Dog, Horse, Fun

  "Katie Price...is right". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle - I don't want to say that there's a bad boy quality - but there's definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That's really sexy.

  Marisa Miller

  Girl, Sexy, Boys

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• That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.

  Li-Young Lee

  Horse, Want, Littles

  Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.128, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feet, Break Off, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.

  Paul Watson

  Meat, Vegan, Gas

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• I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  New York, Actors, Rehearsal

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• Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Aspirin, Cures, Shoulders

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• The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Secret, Doe, Succeed

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• And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Sad, Sky

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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