Words matter. These are the best Saddle Quotes from famous people such as Eddie Van Halen, Zoe Ball, Frank James, Lizzie Armitstead, Georgina Bloomberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction.
I’ve ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I’ve had a go on a BMX.
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it’s just about understanding that sometimes it’s OK to say, ‘I don’t want to get back on my bike for week.’
If I couldn’t compete, I wouldn’t ride. I don’t ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the next competition, and everything that I do when I am in the saddle is always a calculated step in my path to the next win.
You put a tuxedo on me, it’s like putting a saddle on a hog.
The reality of this Obamacare provision is that young adults will be forced to subsidize healthcare costs for older, financially stable, working-age Americans. At a time when 20-somethings face underemployment, record school debt and less economic opportunity, it is unfair to saddle them with this burden.
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain’s saddle.
Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport – not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.
When they saddle the leading man with violence it makes the characters look weak. If a man is a heroic type he doesn’t have to resort to violence. How many successful men in the world have to settle problems with their fists?
I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it’s the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
I grew up riding horses and one of the most important things I learned was that when you fall off, you have to get right back up in the saddle.
Jackson went from the professor’s chair to the officer’s saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.
Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
The bottom line is that most cycling kit exists for a reason. The padded shorts, for example, might look silly, but if you are riding for any length of time on a small, thin saddle you are going to feel it.
‘Misty of Chincoteague’, ‘The Black Stallion’, the ‘Saddle Club’ books, I read ’em all. I was horse-crazy.
After high school, I attended the Virginia Military Institute and then Eastern Virginia Medical School – both great public schools that prepared me well for my career as a physician and didn’t saddle me with a load of debt.
I’ve done ‘Back in the Saddle Again’ so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn’t like this saddle.
My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.
‘Back In The Saddle’ – I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
