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“The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Song Quotes
#Horse Quotes
#Cowboy Quotes
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“Luck is being ready for the chance.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Athlete Quotes
#Luck Quotes
#Chance Quotes
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“The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Beautiful Quotes
#Cowboy Quotes
#America Quotes
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“When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Beautiful Quotes
#Horse Quotes
#Fall Quotes
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“The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
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J. Frank Dobie
Source : A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)
#Education Quotes
#Fear Quotes
#Average Quotes
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“The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Culture Quotes
#Lines Quotes
#Boundaries Quotes
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“Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.”
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J. Frank Dobie
Source : The Voice of the Coyote Introduction
#Science Quotes
#Expectations Quotes
#Answers Quotes
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“When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Texas Quotes
#America Quotes
#Example Quotes
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“Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.”
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J. Frank Dobie
Source : J. Frank Dobie (2010). “Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest”, p.7, University of Texas Press
#Land Quotes
#Literature Quotes
#Soil Quotes
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“No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.”
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J. Frank Dobie
Source : J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press
#Cowboy Quotes
#Quitting Quotes
#Duty Quotes
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“The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.”
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J. Frank Dobie
#Past Quotes
#Men Quotes
#History Quotes
