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Quotes About Gallop

No, we have no rural delivery. It is two miles to the office, but I go whenever I like. It is really the jolliest kind of fun to gallop down. We are sixty miles from the railroad, but when we want anything we send by the mail-carrier for it, only there is nothing to get.
~ Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
~ Bradley Chicho
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
STALLION BY STARLIGHT
~ Mary Pope Osborne
night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As
~ Simon Van Booy
You heard the Premier of Ontario. We might be short in a week. Well, the reinforcements are coming. They're in full gallop.
~ Flavio Volpe
I don't just love riding; I love horses. I was in the field at my yard watching them gallop around and play the other day. That's what keeps me going, and sometimes it has to be something more than just winning.
~ Lee Pearson
Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.
~ George R.R. Martin
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
~ Gerald Raferty
My heart grows light so fast that I could mount a grasshopper and gallop around the world, and not fatigue him any!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1852
We had... a pony with a bronze coat and a joyful temperament. Most afternoons the colt could be found cantering in the grass, kicking his legs high and twisting his thin torso into jaunty leaps, as though with a little effort he could undo the binds of gravity and gallop away on the wind.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Besides, I loved the sound of the gallop. On mornings, before the races, I would walk down among the stalls and breathe in all the scents of the hay and the soap and the saddle leather.
~ Colum McCann
I see it all. I feel it all. I am inspired. My eyes fill with tears. Yet even as I feel this. I lash my frenzy higher and higher. It foams. It becomes artificial, insincere. Words and words and words, how they gallop - how they lash their long manes and tails, but for some fault in me I cannot fly with them, scattering women and string bags. There is some flaw in me - some fatal hesitancy, which, if I pass it over, turns to foam and falsity
~ Virginia Woolf
chuckle, a loud, insincere whinny that gallops around the room and then vanishes.
~ Celeste Ng
He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.
~ William Faulkner
The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.
~ Leo Tolstoy
if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.
~ Christopher McDougall
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.
~ Unknown
Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
~ Virginia Woolf
What the devil did ye tell me for, ye wee idiot?" he said under his breath, urging his horse up into a gallop. "What did ye think I'd do?" Just what ye damn well did was the answer. John hadn't resisted, hadn't fought back. "Go ahead and kill me," the wee bugger had said. A fresh spurt of rage curled Jamie's hands as he imagined all too well doing just that.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
~ Marcello Mastroianni