Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or troops:
“As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a
flea,”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)