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Quotes About Horse

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
~ Jane Smiley
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
~ Jane Smiley
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
~ E.E. Cummings
Buffalo Bills defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what I want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
~ E.E. Cummings
Mr. Coaxyoram himself and many a young girl soft on him, but oh, what a gentleman and from a scion of gentlemen. I learned that it was his horse, Red River, that would be played for. He had given it to his friend Jacksie who had lost his all gambling, and the lady he'd been engaged to had jilted him and had not even returned the engagement ring that was his mother's, which was an heirloom.
~ Edna O'Brien
There was an Old Man or Nepaul, From his horse had a terrible fall; But, though split quite in two, By some very strong glue, They mended that Man of Nepaul.
~ Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who sat on a horse when he reared; But they said, Never mind! You will fall off behind, You propitious Old Man with a beard!
~ Edward Lear
The morning after the battle, Kincaid came across an acquaintance and asked what had gone on with him and his unit the previous day. The man replied, "I'll be hanged if I know anything at all about the matter, for I was all day trodden in the mud and galloped over by every scoundrel who had a horse." He had no other story to tell. Macready,
~ Alessandro Barbero
What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
~ Alexander III
Wayne Lukas was the bar. Wayne impacted Quarter Horse racing and thoroughbred racing like no other.
~ Bob Baffert
American Pharoah handles people. He's been surrounded by hundreds of people. And when he runs, he always looks like he's having fun.
~ Bob Baffert
Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.
~ Hugo Chavez
I am not entirely against horse racing. I even had a share in a horse syndicate with a few mates.
~ John Bishop
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
~ Rebecca West
At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because machinery had made a fool of itself, and dug out the automobile with incredible rapidity. They were doubtless anxious to get back and tell a horse about it.
~ Rebecca West
Yes, my buggy is outside and my horse has been acting up. I wondered if you could come rub its skull and tell me if it's got a bad case of stubborn, or if it might be indigestion?
~ Regina Jennings
Mariners are like to a stiffe necked horse, which taking the bridle betwixt his teeth, forceth his rider to what him list, mauger his will; so they having once concluded, and resolved, are with great difficultie brought to yeelde to the raynes of reason; and to color their negligence, they add cost, trouble, and delay.
~ Richard Hawkins
The substitution of the automobile for the horse left farmers poorer. "By using the power produced by gasoline instead of by corn- and hay-burning horses," a rural economist wrote in 1938, "we have deprived the farmer of a market for the crops from many million acres.
~ Richard Rhodes
probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
~ Richard Russo
Blackjack, Percy said, this is Piper and Jason. They're friends. The horse nickered. Uh, maybe later, Percy answered. Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action. What does Blackjack want? she asked. Donuts, Percy said. Always donuts.
~ Rick Riordan
Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.
~ Rick Riordan
Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
~ Rick Riordan
Hazel blinked. "Two gods had a horse for a kid?" "Long story.
~ Rick Riordan
I smiled. So this horse is your nephew, Sam? She glared at me. Let's not go there. How did your dad father a horse? Blitzen coughed. Actually, Loki was Sleipnir's mother. What--? Let's definitely not go there, Sam warned.
~ Rick Riordan