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Quotes About Donkey

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.
~ Lee Pearson
My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.
~ Gordon Ramsay
According to Borg and Crossan, the way to understand Jesus' riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey is to appreciate the story of Jerusalem. Key to this story is the role of the city as the "center of the domination system
~ Darrell L. Bock
Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.
~ James Tate
What happened at Novgorod was not entirely George Killingworth's fault, although Danny Hislop afterwards blamed his beard, which he claimed had a life of its own like Chang-kuo Lao's miraculous donkey, which could travel thousands of leagues a day, and then at rest could be folded like paper.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
~ Rahman Baba
A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.
~ Ray Bottenberg
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
~ Natalie Goldberg
A Vampire! I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. Uhh, a vampire with- Don't mention the legs! Tammi snapped. It's rude to make fun.
~ Rick Riordan
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.
~ Rick Riordan
Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch, Pay attention to this witch. A donkey takes you to a knight -- Him you conquer in a fight. Then you wed a princess who Is even uglier than you. Ha ha ha and cockadoodle, The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
~ William Steig
The afternoon was brilliant, soft spring sunshine gilding the ancient stone to warm honey, and somewhere, tantalising, just out of reach, the scent of jasmine rose above the odours of donkey and charcoal and leather.
~ Deanna Raybourn
subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
~ Elaine Morgan
holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a
~ Elaine Morgan
as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey
~ Elaine Morgan
His blue-and-white striped robe ballooning out in the wind, he rode directly to me and fell off the donkey. Gasping theatrically, he handed me a note and then collapsed face down in the sand. Since the donkey had been doing all the work, I ignored this demonstration. While John bent over the fallen man with expressions of concern I opened the note.
~ Elizabeth Peters
When they passed the centaur king's cell, Volos pointed at Regin and slid his forefinger across his throat. She replied, Hey, didn't I see you in a donkey show down in Tijuana? No? You've got a twin then--
~ Kresley Cole
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!
~ Eddie Murphy
Jerusalén: He aquí que a ti vendrá tu Rey el Justo, el Salvador: Él vendrá pobre, y montado en un asna y su pollino.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Thanks for the balloon donkey. Perfect timing. My old one's nearly deflated. She received an answer sixty seconds later. Great. I was worried it was so obvious, everybody would've got you one. See you at 5. Light-hearted now, Robin drank tea, ate her toast and returned downstairs to open her family's presents.
~ Robert Galbraith
She zoomed in as close as she could but there still wasn't much to see. Just an expanse of flat, scorched grass on the far side of a row of trees. The kind of field you might keep a donkey in if you didn't like it very much.
~ Lee Child
Helping people rocked. This kind of stuff? Sucked hairy donkey balls
~ Jo Davis
If a donkey could talk, and if the donkey had a sore throat, and if it spoke with a French accent—that was what Mr. Gorf's voice sounded like.
~ Louis Sachar
River on the ferry, Billy swam beside it, and Harriet remembered the donkey and the donkey cart of her first
~ Rose Tremain