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Riding Quotes

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Sarah Dessen
“Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”
Sarah Dessen

Monty Roberts
“I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.”
Monty Roberts, The Horses in My Life

Tamora Pierce
“Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.”
Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

Dean Koontz
“That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.”
Dean Koontz, Relentless

Dorothy L. Sayers
“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

Foster Kinn
“Ride Big,
Ride Long,
Ride Free.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

Astrid Lindgren
“Det var som när man rider i en dröm, en sådan där hemsk dröm, som man vaknar ur med ett skrik och ligger och är rädd av en lång stund efteråt. Men det här var inte en sådan dröm som man vaknade ur. Vi red och red. Vi visste inte vart. Vi visste inte hur långt. Vi bara red genom natten.”
Astrid Lindgren, Mio, My Son

Foster Kinn
“Mountains slowly change, but they will always be there, defining Freedom.”
Foster Kinn

Foster Kinn
“The road listens. It believes in you.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Avijeet Das
“Riding on the streets of loneliness
I drift on roads that take me
on unknown paths
I have become the wanderer again
in search of an ineffable nothingness...”
Avijeet Das

Foster Kinn
“The center-point of riding a motorcycle, and of life itself, is Freedom.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“Saw about a dozen and a half bikers pull into a gas station. After watching them stop at the pumps, start up their bikes and ride to the front of the convenience store, stop, then fire up their bikes again and take off, I’ve come to conclusion that the most time consuming activity bikers engage in is finding neutral.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“Riding a motorcycle is a tribute, a tip of the helmet as it were, to our rugged ancestors who challenge us through the dust of centuries, proof that we have succumbed to the safety nets of civilization.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“Truck drivers are great with directions. Landmarks, road conditions, the works. The only problem is that they’ll give you five different routes to just get to the next town. By the time they’re done, you won’t know what the hell to do.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“It truly is an odd thing we bikers do, riding through miserable conditions like this. We don’t invite them or look for them, surely, but when they are upon us we relish the challenge and silently claim the superiority of adventure over comfort, wilderness over warmth, discovery over certainty.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“Riding is a sacred place.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

Foster Kinn
“Riding a motorcycle takes vengeance on half-shut eyes, deadened ears, and dormant thoughts.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

Foster Kinn
“Riding is my hallowed place.”
Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

Debi Tolbert Duggar
“Then I pivoted, turned, climbed astride Bessie and rod off into the sunset, soul-o.”
Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O

Avijeet Das
“The joy of riding a motorcycle is out of this world. The thrill of riding in the hills and mountains is an opiatic addiction.”
Avijeet Das

Steven Magee
“Suicide is as easy as riding a rocket into Heaven.”
Steven Magee

Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Now if you'll excuse us, all this talk of your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.

His father scowled. "You shouldn't ride in your condition. You could fall from the horse and lose or injure the babe you carry."

Holding Styxx’s hand in hers, she paused to smile graciously at him. "I never said anything about horse, Majesty. It’s your son I intend to mount and ride. Good day.” With Styxx in tow, she headed for the door.

Styxx didn't make a sound until they were out in the hall then he burst into laughter.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
tags: riding, son

Stewart Stafford
“I would no sooner be a lusty dawn rider, braving gales and approaching storms in a sinewy canter, only to receive a headfirst introduction to a steaming dunghill.”
Stewart Stafford

Lilith Saintcrow
“The girl's body dropped into the rhythm of a canter —and what girl doesn't love a horse, doesn't already know how to ride? The knowledge lurks in them, breath and bone, part of an ancient copact between big grazing beasts and the women who patiently tamed them, knowing brutality might work for a short while but true partnership can never be forced.”
Lilith Saintcrow, Spring's Arcana

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“When I say, ‘I’m on a fucking mission’, what I mean is that—No matter how you haters ride me, I’m gonna get on top and I’m never gonna stop until I impregnate the world with my ideas!”
Curtis Tyrone Jones

Avijeet Das
“The joy of riding a motorcycle is out of this world. The thrill of riding in the hills and mountains is an addiction.”
Avijeet Das

Avijeet Das
“He loved talking to the mountains. He loved talking to the breeze. He loved to drift. And he loved to ride his motorcycle.”
Avijeet Das

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