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“The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.”

Mother Father Brother Horse Favors Donkey Mules

Book:Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

Source: Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

“Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.”

Long Mother Arms Kings Horse Grandfather Syria Pointing My Grandfather Once Upon A Time Downtown Posh

Author:Mona Simpson

“I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.”

Years Firsts Said Age Mother Felt First Time Horse Galloping

Author:William Shatner

“My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.”

Mother Waiting White Feet Taught Mom Horse My Mom White Horse

Author:Tyra Banks

“One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.”

Mother Worry Daughter Horse Property My Daughter Jumpers

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”

Funny Mother Humorous Horse Motherhood Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Rebecca West

“Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”

Facts Wanted Mother Horse Fascination Facts Of Life

Author:Jane Smiley

“I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!”

Knows Men Wells Said Mother Missing Horse Right Thing Sweat Pigs Glowing Sweating Right Thing To Say

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.”

Lying Mother Born Blood Sea Land Walking Ocean Bird Horse Eggs Veins Womb Placenta

Book:The wars

Source: The wars

“I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.”

“It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.”

World Done Mother Fate Promise Mountain Mercy Horse Swear Womb I Promise Lambs Cruel Fate

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.”

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.”

Mother Daughter Horse Soccer My Daughter Soccer Love

Author:Kyle Chandler

“This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.”

Mother Sports Horse Lovely Commentators Greatest Sports Funny Sports Funniest Sports Double Entendre

Author:Ted Walsh

“You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.”

Children Mother Horse Disability Holding On Delicacy Protector Special Needs Daffodil Special Needs Children

Author:Lori Borgman

“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”

Ifs Way Mother Father Names Given Bits Dark Known Break Sun Taught Discipline Depression Understood And Love Horse Teeth Gentle Beast Temperament Unbroken

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it”

Home Mother Horse Towns Bottles Whiskey Home Town Fiesta

Author:Roberto Duran