Horse And His Boy Quotes

#1. Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Elizabeth Wein

#2. I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Barbra Streisand

#3. You're a boy playing in men's games, Sharpie, and you're going to lose unless you're a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, Sharpie, but you're not man enough, are you?

Bernard Cornwell

#4. My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.

Jay Cross

#6. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.

John Kay

#7. death is predestined for all mortals. Souls live forever, but the body does not. Unless you are immortal, both the soul and body are tied together."~Taznikos Abyssos

Yelle Hughes

#8. He wanted to consume her, devour her, possess her completely. He needed to own her gorgeous, pure flesh. He yearned to slice her skin, mar her all over with beautiful, bloody curves.

Jessica Satin

#9. That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly.

Aporva Kala

#10. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

Andrew Carnegie

#11. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

C.S. Lewis

#12. The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself

Pete Dexter

#13. Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.

Eric Hobsbawm

#14. Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)

William Shakespeare

#15. As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses ...

Bill Henson

#16. Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.

Oakley Hall

#17. But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Holderlin

#18. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

Max Muller

#19. It's easier bein' a boy, 'cause when someone needs somethin' done like holdin' a horse, they'll always pick a boy 'cause they think the dumbest boy will be better at it than the brightest girl, which is stupid, but there you are.

L.A. Meyer

#20. real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver

Andrew Lang

#21. He had not yet learned that sometimes your reward for doing one task well is to be set with a harder and better one.

C.S. Lewis

#22. There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

Brock Lesnar

#23. Blood is thicker than water, but family isn't just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don't have those things, I don't care what the blood says. You're not family.

Seanan McGuire

#24. In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

Ray Bradbury

#25. Boy, you're like a horse.
Just now sated with seed,
You've come back to my stable,
Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
An icy spring, shady groves.

Theognis Of Megara

#26. Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

Patrick Ness

#27. Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

Li Bai

#28. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

#29. We found a book called Alexander, about a boy who confesses all his misdeeds to his father by blaming them on an imaginary red-and-green striped horse. Alexander was a pretty bad horse today. Whatever we can't hold, we hang onto a hook that will hold it.

Leslie Jamison

#30. In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

R.v.m.

#31. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

#32. Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.

Philippa Gregory