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Quotes About Horses

we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
~ Charles Bukowski
Some are dealing with the injured chargers: it's a tense and bloody business, for damaged equoids don't simply scream piteously and wait to die like horses.)
~ Charles Stross
I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
~ Talulah Riley
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
~ Meg Rosoff
How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its weather.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
They deliver right away and with no pain. Just like horses. The young ones smiled a little.
~ Toni Morrison
That morning, the two eagerly awaited fairy-tale princes had left their white horses in the stable for once and traveled by Tube," declaimed Xemerius unctuously. "At the sight of them, the eyes of the two princesses shone, and when the two concentrated sets of young hormones collided, expressing themselves in the form of embarrassed kisses and silly grins, the clever and incomparably handsome demon unfortunately had to throw up in a garbage bin.
~ Kerstin Gier
I made friends with three country Marines and a navy medic who provide security for the base—and who, in the course of their duties, confiscated four horses from Iraqi men who came too close to the base with carts, supposedly to collect scrap metal.
~ Kevin Sites
For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.
~ Kim Meeder
If wishes were horses mine would be glue -
~ Carrie Fisher
He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. "Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled." (Tyrion). The squire's eyes were cloudy with sleep. "Horses". (squire) "Those big brown animals that love apples, I'm sure you've seen them. Four legs and a tail. But Bronn first." (Tyrion)
~ George R.R. Martin
What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth.
~ George R.R. Martin
The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
~ George R.R. Martin
The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oats, n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
~ Samuel Johnson
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
~ English proverb
Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.
~ Ismail Kadare
When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they're like, 'Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?' I'm like, 'No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.'
~ Lee Pearson
The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.
~ Nacho Figueras
Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
~ Paulo Coelho
Sara would call one of those cops on horses a motherfucker. The cop would avert his eyes. Sara would ask directions for the wild wild west.
~ Tao Lin
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
~ John Ruskin