A Quote by John Hay

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

John Hay

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Carry Door Horse Lands Me Pale Stands Unknown

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John Hay
American - Writer
October 8, 1838 - July 1, 1905

I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race...

Henny Youngman

I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.

Udo Kier

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Alan Alda

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Charles Ives

Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

Clive James

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Jonathan Edwards

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Rebecca Solnit

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

Ardel Wray

I'm going to play at the highest I can, the best I can every night. Wherever that lands me, that's where it lands me.

Paul George

I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.

Ada Lovelace

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

Richard Francis Burton

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

Christina Rossetti

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.