“The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.” PeopleYearsTodayFiveDoorsYears AgoHorseFive YearsRidingLockedComing Back Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.” GoneDoorsHorseWheelsAfternoonLeisurePacksSpinningSunnyBargainsWagonsPeddlerSunny Afternoon Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.” UseGoneDoorsHorseClosingBarns Author:John Heywood
“Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.” KnowsFeelsHeartPersonsRunningEnergyBitsRealizingBornLevelsRaceOur LivesDoorsTalentPrayingHorseGreat ThingsGatesLockedDreadLocked UpLocked DoorsRace Horses Author:Marianne Williamson
“I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.” StillsBookMightFunDoorsMinesHorseWestSilverGambleLoadedPistolsNevadaSaloonsBoardwalks Author:Caroline Lawrence
“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.” IfsI CanBookHelpingHappensLostLaughingDoorsSeaWindKeysPleaseHorseBoxesExcuseTricksCodeCavesPardonLabyrinthExcuse MeSure ThingCiphersWind Blowing Author:Carl Sandburg