J. Frank Dobie Quotes

• Un hombre de Iowa o Illinois dirá "soy del Medio Oeste"... un georgiano o un mississippiano pueden admitir que son meramente sureños... pero ningún tejano, dada la oportunidad, ha dicho nunca otra cosa que "soy de Texas".

  J. Frank Dobie

  Opportunity, Men, Illinois

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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.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Cowboy

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• Luck is being ready for the chance.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Athlete, Luck

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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.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Pasado, Hombres, Historia

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• No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Cowboy, Quitting, Duty

  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

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• I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Life, Mind, Earth

  "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress" by United States, Congress, Vol. 110, part 17, (p. 22821), 1964.

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• La criatura más bella, más enérgica y más inspiradora que jamás haya pisado los pastos de América.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Cowboy, Feet

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• Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Land, Literature, Soil

  J. Frank Dobie (2010). “Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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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.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Texas, America, Example

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• Los límites de la cultura y las precipitaciones nunca siguen líneas topográficas.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Culture, Lines, Boundaries

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Education, Fear

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Race, People, Hats

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• Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Science, Expectations, Answers

  The Voice of the Coyote Introduction

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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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  Beautiful, Horse, Fall

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• De Sundown Leflare, de Frederic Remington, enterrado en la repisa de la chimenea. Sundown y otro montañés cocinaron y cenaron. "Luego", dice Remington, "se sentaron con el mayor filósofo de la tierra: el fuego".

  J. Frank Dobie

  Men, Fire, Mountain

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