A Quote by Molly Ivins

I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.

Molly Ivins

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Among Girlhood Spent Thoroughbreds

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Molly Ivins
American - Journalist
August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.

Clive Sinclair

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

Tori Amos

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

And I told you before, I'll sell you any of the thoroughbreds.” “I didn't make any of those thoroughbreds. I didn't make them what they are.” “You made all of them what they are.” I don't look at him. “None of them made me who I am.

Maggie Stiefvater

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

David Letterman

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Kai Bird

I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.

Joyce Carol Oates

I really don't like thoroughbreds, but I was getting bored with quarter horses.

Bob Baffert

The emphasis in thoroughbreds is managing the horses as much as it is training them.

Bob Baffert

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Moliere

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

Solomon

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

Larry Niven

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.