Riding Quotes - Page 28

• Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.

  Allison Glock

  Dog, Teeth, Mud

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• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Rainbow, Horny, Ships

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

  Michael Symon

  Food, Skins, Wheels

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• Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."

  James Keller

  Time, Men, Years

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• When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them.....Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.

  Joe Fafard

  Horse, Animal, Race

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

  Nuno Oliveira

  Aspirin, Cures, Shoulders

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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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• 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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