Horse Quotes
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
Abraham Lincoln
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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.
Michael Morpurgo
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It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
Bruce Nordstrom
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America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.
Zoe Helene
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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
Derek Jacobi
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You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.
William Lucking
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Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
David Stockman
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If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.
Gerald Sinstadt
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stephen Spender
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I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!
Vivienne Westwood
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My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.
Steve Kanaly
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When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?
Joe Gebbia
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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
Plutarch
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Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
Nuno Oliveira
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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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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
John Heywood
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A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
John Heywood
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A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.
William E. Woodward
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When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
Nuno Oliveira
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I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.
Miley Cyrus
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
Margaret Mitchell
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A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.
William James