Horse Quotes

• You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Life
  • Things
  • Deal

• You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.

  

  Eddie Arcaro
  • People
  • Remember
  • Success

• I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Fall
  • Literature
  • Danger

• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Actors

• He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Patient

• What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Horse
  • Pig

• 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
  • Real
  • Ideas
  • Cowboy

• A good horse is the best company in the world.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • World
  • Horse
  • Company

• Once I get the horse where he’s responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, it’s not just the horse that needs fixing. It’s the human that needs fixing and it’s the human that created that in the first place.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Human
  • Horse
  • Frame Of Mind

• Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Everyday

• A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

  

  Georg Riedel
  • Wine
  • Edges
  • Taming

• In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Bird

• I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • School
  • Horse
  • Dead

• It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Health
  • Horse

• "Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fighting
  • Mystery
  • Sailing

• I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

  

  William Shatner
  • Love
  • Dog
  • Pleasure

• I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.

  

  Richard Madden
  • Horse
  • Dizzy

• Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Soul
  • Horse
  • Mirror

• Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

  

  Roy Keane
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Player

• When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Way
  • Horse

• One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • World
  • Wish
  • Decision

• If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Horse

• If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Arms

• When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Horse
  • Changes

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