Top 27 J Frank Dobie Quotes
#1. The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
J. Frank Dobie
#2. The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
J. Frank Dobie
#4. Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.
Austin Kleon
#6. Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
J. Frank Dobie
#7. So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony. And above all, we must learn how to pause.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#8. The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
#9. Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
J. Frank Dobie
#10. I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie
#11. Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.
J. Frank Dobie
#13. None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.
Mark Noble
#14. But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
Steven Hatfill
#15. A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner ... but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
J. Frank Dobie
#16. That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
Gabriel E. Gomez
#18. Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."
J. Frank Dobie
#19. The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
#20. I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.
David Mandel
#21. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
Guru Nanak
#23. When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
J. Frank Dobie
#24. The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
J. Frank Dobie
#25. No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
J. Frank Dobie
#26. Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
Gary Kemp
#27. The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world - - the cowboy songs of Texas and the West - - are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
J. Frank Dobie
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