Quotes About Horseback

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

Zane moved his horse next to Lucy's and simply grabbed the girl around the waist. When she settled on the saddle in front of him, he unbuttoned his coat, tucked it around her, then fastened the bottom three buttons. "I wish he could do that with me," Maya said with a shiver.

Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.

I wanted to be a horseback-riding trainer and to go to the Olympics as an equestrian.

I watched him wave from the back of his hired mare and clatter off down the silent streets of Hans Town in a westerly direction; and reflected that there are few sights so gratifying to a female eye, as a handsome man in a well-made coat and hat, astride a horse on a spring morning.

My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.

Budapest was very beautiful and spending the day under a canopy of Hungarian trees, on horseback, was fantastic.

Once when they went horseback riding with other young couples, they came to a stream and all the other men helped their women across. But not Lincoln: he rode on alone and left Mary to fend for herself. She was miffed. Frankly, she thought he had terrible manners. And he was moody, too, and seemed never to have anything to say that was light and fun and tender. He never said much at all.

Horseback Dinner given in 1903 by Mr. C. K. G. Billings. For this party, also at Sherry's, the ballroom was filled with live trees and shrubs to represent a forest glade. The floor was sodded, and all about the room "blue bloods of the equine world

I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback.

I can tell you, it's going to end badly; these Asiatics are all like this. After a good pull of young wine, the knife-play begins!' We mounted our horses and galloped home.

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

They were probably descended from people who learned that if you look too hard at anyone on horseback you receive a sharp stinging sensation such as might be obtained by a stick around the ear. Not looking up at people on horseback had become hereditary. People who stared at people on horseback in what was considered to be a funny way never survived long enough to breed.

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Do you know where she lives?" "Could get there blindfolded." "Did he just blush?" Tolbert asked Marc as Lucien strode over to his black stallion and swung up into the saddle. "I heard that," he retorted.

He leaned closer, his lips almost touching my ear. "I don't need to see your face or smell you. I could tell it was you by the way you rode your horse.

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

My son, Gio, wanted to do a horseback trip in Mongolia, but he didn't want to do an Abercrombie & Fitch-type tour, where they show you around while you sleep in B&Bs.