"I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it."

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Source : "The Gentle Falcon". Book by Hilda Lewis, 1957.

Hilda Lewis

#Horse Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes

“I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.”

Source : "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 6, 1996.
“One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,”

Source : P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Hot Water”, p.248, Random House
“I believe in love, children and being a good person.”
“We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85
“If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.”
“When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.”
“Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir.”
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.”

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