Quotes About Horses

Exóticos —exóticos de verdad— le resultaban aquí los mástiles y banderolas, las alegorías y enseñas; los caballotes de anchas grupas, como sacados de un tiovivo imaginado por Paolo Ucello, tan distintos de los jamelgos huesudos y mañosos —buenos hijos de andaluces al fin— de su país.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

scheduled to begin Monday. The next morning, the crew rode to look at Slaughter's cows and calves. They saw most of them and told Chet he made a very good buy. The cattle were great. Chet and Jesus took the late stage back from Tombstone. Fred and Spencer took a room, stabled the horses, and were to join them Saturday night in Tucson.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt." "You forgot to roll." "Oh. I knew I did something wrong.

I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother! I did not wonder that my mother was so troubled. It seems that horses have no relations; at least, they never know each other after they are sold.

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

Four blessings upon you - Older whiskey - Younger women - Faster horses - More money

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

By way of farewell, I recited Mandelshtam's † melancholy poem: The horses tread slowly, The lamps burn low, And where they are taking me Only strangers know.

I grew up around rodeo culture and a lot of farms.

I got into circuses and put on circuses in the backyard. My dad had horses and he'd bring them and we'd do horse tricks. I was 6 or 7 years old putting on circuses for the family or whoever in the backyard.

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

Because of the new regulations the regulators have put, they're testing these horses at contaminated levels and it's been a horrible experience.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities.