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Quotes About Ranger

A Ranger carries the lives of two dozen men with him, the old saying went. Edwina thought then that John Buttle might need to watch his
~ John Flanagan
this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger or a knight of the realm," he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.
~ John Flanagan
Halt leaned forward and took Cassandra's hands. "You'd be placing her in the care of the greatest, most capable Ranger Araluen has ever known," he said quietly. He sensed the surprise among the others and looked up at them. "Oh, Will's better than I ever was," he said, smiling.
~ John Flanagan
Stamper looked a little bewildered at the sudden crowd of small, shaggy Ranger horses that now shared his stable.
~ John Flanagan
Ranger carries the lives of two dozen men with him, the old saying went.
~ John Flanagan
Age before beauty,' he said to Halt. The older Ranger's eyebrow rose slightly. 'Pearl before swine,' he replied
~ John Flanagan
Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.' 'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoordde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan ook een schoon geweten.' Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er ooit een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoon geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd.
~ John Flanagan
It took years of training to achieve the level of silence with which a Ranger could move.
~ John Flanagan
Even though it was after midnight, the lights were still burning in Baron Arald's office when Halt and Gilan reached the castle. The Baron and Sir Rodney, Redmont's Battlemaster, had a lot of planning to do, preparing for the march to the Plains of Uthal, where they would join the rest of the kingdom's army. When Halt explained Gilan's need, Sir Rodney was quick to see where the Ranger's thinking was headed.
~ John Flanagan
do was let the Ranger get on with thinking, while he took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way.
~ John Flanagan
De tol?' vroeg Arnaut. 'Ja, dat is een bijzondere vorm van struikroverij,' legde Halt uit.
~ John Flanagan
Most of our time is spent waiting. A Ranger's best asset is patience.
~ John Flanagan
There were four of them, so Will had them seriously outnumbered. He gave them one warning, identifying himself as a King's Ranger, but they chose to attack. Within seconds, three of them were on the ground, nursing arrow wounds to arms and legs. The fourth, his eyes wide with terror, tossed his sword away and fell to his knees, begging for mercy.
~ John Flanagan
I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak asked, his voice hollow, his eyes still showing the shock of his sudden elevation to the highest office in Skandia. Of course," said the Ranger, shrugging. "You're big, mean, and ugly and those seem to be the qualities Skandian's value most.
~ John Flanagan
The hero wasn't me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.
~ Sarah Monette
His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.
~ Eric Blehm
A fiery horse, with a speed of light—a cloud of dust, a hearty laugh, The Lone Ranger is perhaps the most attractive figure ever to come out of the West.
~ Bill O'Reilly
He looked like an actor who'd star in some movie about a doomed love affair between an heiress and a park ranger. I thought it was probably inappropriate to fling myself against him and bury my nose in his chest.
~ Sue Grafton
Joe Pickett's
~ C.J. Box
Surrender is not a Ranger word. Fine. Let the battle begin.
~ Susan May Warren
This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.
~ George R.R. Martin
My grandfather was a Texas Ranger. He used to tell me that courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored." She looked at him. "Well, I'm scared.
~ Kristin Hannah
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
~ Norman Maclean
The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
~ Greg Grandin