Horse Quotes

• You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Up
  • Horse

• My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Good
  • Father
  • Pretty

• One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Horse

• Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Horse

• So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Earth

• The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Horse
  • Princess

• Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

  

  David Christian
  • Energy
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly but fuck one horse and you will be a horse fucker for all eternity.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Eternity
  • Tyrant
  • Fuck

• When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Fence

• Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

  

  Arthur Baer
  • Horse

• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Happiness

• One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.

  

  Beverly Lewis
  • Children
  • Family
  • Car

• I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Morning
  • Horse
  • Rose

• A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Horse

• Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Poverty
  • Red
  • Horse

• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Dog
  • Homeless
  • Pregnant

• You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Present
  • Horse

• It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the 'dark horse' in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Dark

• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • People
  • Black
  • Gold

• In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Important
  • Light
  • Horse

• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  

  Charles V
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Horse
  • Old

• I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Horse
  • Boat

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