North West Mounted

Famous quotes containing the words north, west and/or mounted:

    “Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,
    With Li Po’s name forgotten,
    And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.”
    —Li Po (701–762)

    “You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.”
    —Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine)

    “Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
    Casey Jones, throttle in his hand,
    Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
    Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.”
    —Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 49–52)