Saddle Quotations

I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.

So John Wayne ... rolled in the saddle as his nag ran at a gallop in the snow toward the chest-high fence. The horse stretched, Duke rose, and the two cleared the fence with plenty of room.

She's always going to be on the muscle in the saddle area. That's just the way she is. But she's not worrying or sweating or getting scared. She just has her game face on and is ready.

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.

I did kind of let 'em have it. I don't think we were playing up to snuff. You've got to give Illinois a lot of credit. They played very hard. But we needed to get back in the saddle a little bit. It's good that we did.

I don't use a four-wheeler because I don't like the noise, so I look at most of my ground on horseback. It's kind of a getaway from work to saddle up my horse and not have to deal with people.

I don't think it's something that's going to saddle him through this process. People are more interested in his hip turn and 40 time and all that.

If the total cost of the hurricane recovery effort approaches $200 billion, as some have suggested, that would amount to every family in the country paying about $2,500. The last thing we need to do would be to saddle taxpayers with a tax increase,

He does crazy things when he's riding. He'll reach down and pick something up or tip the saddle down to one side. You just don't know what he's going to do. As much as I've seen him ? the hundreds and hundreds of times he's ridden ? sometimes I just get down laughing at him, because some of the stuff he does is just funny.

He said he had a tire blowout and went on the divider in the median. It ripped a good size hole in one of his saddle tanks. The hole punched in the tank started leaking.

start thinking about the country instead of trying to save his marriage and his own fanny. . . Self-indulgence has been in the saddle too long and is taking him over a cliff.

I would if I was facing us, ... I'd try to saddle him up. Hes a workhorse.

With all the development and stuff that is going on, I just thought it was a good time to get back in the saddle again.

When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.

We're not trying to saddle up Freddy and have him carry us into the postseason. We just need him to be a significant, reliable contributor to the starting rotation.

We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing every day, pretending I was on a horse. It's still my dream to have a horse one day.

We need to get back in the saddle after the Midlands, and this is perfect timing for us. Tom Brands will bring a team that will compete. We'll need that type of intensity and competition to get ready for the rest of the season.

The grace of God is found between the saddle and the ground.

Those statues are once-in-a-lifetime guys. He was a once-in-a-lifetime guy. He showed kindness and he was a man of his word and a man of his honor. Someday, I'd like to saddle a horse and see a statue of Bob Lewis in the garden.

We went above and beyond. We're required to notify all neighbors, but we notified everyone in that township range because of our experience in the initial review. We notified everyone in Milner and everyone in Saddle Mountain Estates. So far, we haven't received any comments.

Everyone stayed in the saddle and passed the first test.

Courage is when you're shaking in your boots, and you saddle up anyway.

Things are going to change in this business. Look at how well Bright Eyes has done on Saddle Creek. No one's done anything like that before.

Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.

Every occasion will catch the senses of the vain man and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him

Sunday, that was our "fun day". After Sunday school a group of boys that lived around Purdy, would meet at my house, nearly all owned saddle horses. We would go out on the prairie, there was not very many fences then. We would rope calves and have our rodeo, riding these calves on Sunday was when I learned to ride.

Sunday, that was our ""fun day"". After Sunday school a group of boys that lived around Purdy, would meet at my house, nearly all owned saddle horses. We would go out on the prairie, there was not very many fences then. We would rope calves and have our rodeo, riding these calves on Sunday was when I learned to ride.

It's certainly good to get back in the saddle again.

They've never had a saddle on, or been worked with. We want students to experience that first.

I'm going to take the saddle and spurs off, and let Rosie have a rest.

I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.

I'm very proud of what we've done the last five years. Someone else has earned the World Series those years, so we have to dust ourselves off, get up in the saddle again and keep at it.

I'm a nut for quality. We try to make the saddle we're working on better than the last one.

I really feel that I am ready to get back in the saddle and work with Mick. Everybody in the band, including management, is excited about it.

I place the saddle on the body horse, the saddle of realization of the Good Lord.

I couldn't afford a good saddle and, like any other kid, I wanted to be a cowboy. When I was 17, I had the opportunity to work in a saddle shop.

Graham was declared to ride the horse as it was a 48-hour declaration race. He was fine at the time but is under the weather now and he is feeling worse today, not better. He hopes to be back in the saddle on Monday but he won't be riding at the weekend.

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

A horse of good breed is not dishonored by his saddle

A mother can terminate a pregnancy and the father has no say. On the other hand, a mother's able to make a unilateral decision to keep the child and saddle the father with 18 years of child support." ()

On furnishing her new house: I saw these plastic horses - we'll have them instead of chairs. People will climb in the saddle to sit.