Stagecoach Quotes

#1. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. The Girauds' child was looking more and more like a problem.
Luke pressed his lips into a thin line. When she'd leaned in the stagecoach blazing with fervor over what was in the arcane books, it had taken all his willpower not to throw a bolt of magic to stop her heart.

Ann Gimpel

#3. Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!

Julie Dunlap

#4. The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

Pete Rose

#5. You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

William Hazlitt

#6. Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

Steve Truglia

#7. consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857, that same trip by rail would have taken 72 hours.12

Jeremy Rifkin

#8. On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Anita Loos

#9. Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Saul Alinsky

#10. This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

Harold Wilson

#11. Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

David Mamet

#12. If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

#13. I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

Dom DeLuise

#14. It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

Subhas Chandra Bose

#15. Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Agustin Gomez-Arcos

#16. Your Obstacle Is Your Miracle

Hope D. Blackwell

#17. He envied her, sensing that she lived each day as if it was her last.

B. J. Daniels

#18. But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large, I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

Elie Wiesel