Paddock Quotes

#1. Not too many people know how hard I have worked since I broke my jaw. I have been flogging myself on the training paddock.

Andrew Johns

#2. All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property.

Kate Grenville

#3. If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

Robert Morley

#4. You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

Pam Brown

#5. Ernie thought - what's the expression? - that he had a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock.

Louis Nowra

#6. The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?

James R. Paddock

#8. How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

Sebastian Faulks

#9. Lie through your teeth and call it a novel. All will be well.

James R. Paddock

#10. Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Peter Carey

#11. What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.

James R. Paddock

#12. It continued to amaze me how the touch of skin on skin had altered things: curled in the crook of his arm, my head upon his breast, I'd sensed his heart beating and for a moment hadn't been sure whether it was mine.

Claire Messud

#13. We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves beyond our limits. I'm ready to keep doing that. I want to be the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.

Bonner Paddock

#14. I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

Katie Hoff

#15. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos

Anita Paddock

#16. I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford