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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. -- Constance Baker Motley
Tortall and the Queens Riders! -- Tamora Pierce
Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country. -- Tim Bishop
My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders. -- Miguel Indurain
I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has. -- Chris LeDoux
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders -- Tom Berenger
I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders. -- Tom Berenger
The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Arise now, arise, Riders of ThÃ©oden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Riders called me up afterwards to say that they had had no other choice. I couldn't understand the way they changed their tune. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight. -- Douglas Brinkley
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States. -- Andrew Lau
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal -- Tom Berenger
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. -- Tom Berenger
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off. -- Tom Berenger
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off." -- Tom Berenger
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down. -- T. Jefferson Parker
I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort. -- Walter Hill
Arise, arise, Riders of ThÃ©oden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. -- Douglas Brinkley
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying. -- Jilly Cooper
I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future.' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?" -- Sandra Bullock
Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider. -- Cornelia Funke
In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine. -- Chris LeDoux
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. -- Saint Augustine
Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider. -- Michael Biehn
I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out. -- Donal Logue
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. -- Robert Smith Surtees
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. -- Peter Fonda
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider -- Valentino Rossi
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. -- Barry White
I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider. -- Davy Jones
Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country. -- Dennis Hopper
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see. -- Patton Oswalt
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception. -- Miguel Indurain
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%. -- Sete Gibernau
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering. -- Major Taylor
I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes. -- Bo Jackson
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director. -- Rebecca De Mornay
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. -- Richard Pound
Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times. -- Evel Knievel
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. -- Calamity Jane
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. -- Martina Hingis
I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me. -- Richard Virenque
During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance. -- Tony McCoy
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. -- Buffalo Bill
As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points. -- Calamity Jane
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. -- Richard Pound
I think there's a stereotype of what a biker is, and I think that's one of the reasons people are shocked when they find out that I ride. I've been trying to break down the stereotypes and inspire new riders. -- Marisa Miller
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. -- Martin Luther
I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make. -- Donny Robinson
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. -- Major Taylor
Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team. -- Laurent Jalabert
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
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. -- Archibald MacLeish
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them. -- Margaret Heffernan
I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders. -- Randeep Hooda
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors. -- Fernando Alonso
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel. -- Alan Dershowitz
There are no problem horses, only problem riders. -- Buck Brannaman
I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking. -- Nuno Oliveira
Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders. -- J. A. Jance
I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners -- Jan Ullrich
Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going... -- Warren Miller
The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. -- Liu Bei
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. -- Neal Shusterman
I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes. -- Kellyanne Conway
There's the difference between hardcore motorcycle riders and people who own motorcycles. Some people ride'em and some people trailer'em. -- Sonny Barger
One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest. -- David Millar
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. -- Carl Sandburg
The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. -- George R. R. Martin
Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars. -- Martin Carver
There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.... -- William Butler Yeats
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves. -- Ernest Hemingway
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them. -- John Rawls
I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay. -- Kenny Troutt
The supporters...It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step.... -- Gilberto Simoni
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly. -- Gilberto Simoni
You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there. -- Richard Virenque
Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests. -- David Millar
I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track. -- Valentino Rossi
The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired. -- Teresa Flavin
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen. -- Richelle Mead
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.... -- William J. Clinton
Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick. -- Sully Erna
One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders. -- Patrik Sinkewitz

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