J. Frank Dobie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West â€”â€”- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Song #Horse #Cowboy
Luck is being ready for the chance.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Athlete #Luck #Chance
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Beautiful #Cowboy #America
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Beautiful #Horse #Fall
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Education #Fear #Average
The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Culture #Lines #Boundaries
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Science #Expectations #Answers
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Texas #America #Example
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Land #Literature #Soil
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
-- J. Frank Dobie

#Cowboy #Quitting #Duty
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

#Past #Men #History

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