Memoir Horse Racing Quotes & Sayings

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own. — Mike Krzyzewski

It's gonna be a hell of a day. A hell of a day. — Pierce Brown

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years. — Larry McMurtry

Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman

life is not as easy as you think it is — M..

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life. — Aleksa Palladino

The more you love, the more friends you will have. The more friends you have, the more love you will receive. — Debasish Mridha

Meat and two veg is your knob," I tell him.

He frowns again, looking confused. "Knob?"

"Dick," I say, "penis, cock, nob, chopper, dong, cream stick, one-eyed trouser snake, prick, tadger, willy, bell-end, or dobber. Take your pick. — Beckie Stevenson

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. — George Savile

A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do. — Jim McGarrah