Quotes About Riding

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing.

All horses are different - sometimes they have a long neck - so you don't ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you're aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.

I don't ride a sport bike. If I'm riding a sport bike and trying to do tricks, and going 200 miles down the highway, that's probably pretty stupid. But when you're riding a Harley or a chopper, and you're riding with a group of people and you're not on the highway and you're cruising, you're relaxing.

Regaining control of the gelding, Fiddler drove his heels into its flanks. They bolted forward, savagely riding down the group's generous leader.

Over the top of the hill a knight came riding. At first I saw only his helmeted head, bent, but even then I knew him and began to run toward him. A knight riding a weary horse, a battered knight with one arm in a sling, his shield hanging from his saddle. Its device, a single heart-shaped green leaf with a violet blossom. As I ran toward him he lifted his head, and his eyes smiled at me the warmest blue the world has ever known.

I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being on horseback.

Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change,—that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide . . . though he's amiable enough, keeps cracking jokes back through the loudspeaker . . .

Jessie eyed the row of costumes and picked one, a sly smile forming on her lips. "I'm going to be Little Red Riding Hood." I raised my eyebrows. "Seriously? At a werewolf party?

He had come to a place of great beauty but it had taken the waves and the act of riding them to grant him communion.

On a gentle horse, every man is a rider.

You've ridden a little?" "Quite a bit, actually," she said. He gave her a paternalistic smile. "We'll see," he said.

mom thought all differences melted away and that anyone could be pleasant company once they were on horseback.

We have our own ocean, we've got a great bike trail - I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

How do you know when you find the right saddle? You just "feel" it, because your horse is relaxed and willing under you, and your hours in the saddle are less hard work and far more pleasurable. Your saddle feels like a comfortable pair of shoes

I was out on a date recently and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun, until we ran out of quarters.

Non somos nós propietarios da vida, nós só cabalgamos un bicho salvaxe e imprevisíbel.

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

Jupiter is a gibbous streaky horror riding across the zenith of the night black sky—it