Horse Quotes
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Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.
William Shakespeare
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I had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.
Andy Serkis
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Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed."
Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term."
"Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
Cate Tiernan
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In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs.
Adolfo Cambiaso
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
Johnny Bench
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The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.
Ardyth Kennelly
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When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has lost, the chances he will never have, to return such a touch, to fall of a horse or eat chinese food or shoot a crossbow which has always been one of his most dear wishes, to receive a letter in the mail, to be kissed with longing or punched in the jaw.
Brady Udall
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It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
Nicholas Evans
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Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding
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A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
George Vaillant
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
Abraham Lincoln
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Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.
William Shakespeare
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A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
Nuno Oliveira
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There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.
Jules Verne
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
Buck Brannaman
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I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.
Stephen Strasburg
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You cannot kickstart a dead horse
Thomas Edward Yorke
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