Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Red Pony.
Coming of Age Quotes
Nearly all of his father's presents were given with reservations which hampered their value somewhat. It was good discipline. (1.21)
Death Quotes
He felt an uncertainty in the air, a feeling of change and of loss and of the gain of new and unfamiliar things. Over the hillside two big black buzzards sailed low to the ground and their shadows...
Family Quotes
Billy Buck sat down on the steps, because he was a cow-hand, and it wouldn't be fitting that he should go first into the dining-room. (1.1)
Men and Masculinity Quotes
At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky. He was a broad, bandy-legged little man with a walrus mustache, with square hands, puffe...
Disappointment Quotes
Nearly all of his father's presents were given with reservations which hampered their value somewhat. (1.21)
Duty Quotes
Billy Buck sat down on the steps, because he was a cow-hand, and it wouldn't be fitting that he should go first into the dining room. (1.1)
Admiration Quotes
Jody did not ask where his father and Billy Buck were riding that day, but he wished he might go along. His father was a disciplinarian. Jody obeyed him in everything without questions of any kind....