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Quotes About Horse

Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)
~ Rick Riordan
I tried explaining to Blackjack that taking a flying horse to a donut shop would give every cop in there a heart attack, but he didn't seem to get it.
~ Rick Riordan
looks like Santa's sleigh," Frank said. "Can Arion even pull that much?" Arion huffed. "Hazel," Percy said, "I am seriously going to wash your horse's mouth with soap. He says, yes, he can pull it, but he needs food.
~ Rick Riordan
knight in shining stirrups.
~ Kathy Carmichael
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He doth nothing but talk of his horse.
~ William Shakespeare
And I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse.
~ William Shakespeare
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
~ William Shakespeare
Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!
~ William Shakespeare
Saint George, that swing'd the dragon, and e'er sinceSits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.
~ William Shakespeare
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
~ William Shakespeare
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
~ William Shakespeare
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
~ Winston Churchill
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~ Xenophon
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
~ David Quammen
What was causing this mayhem? How was it spreading from one horse to another, or anyway getting into so many of them simultaneously? One possibility was a toxic contaminant in the feed supply. Or maybe poison, maliciously introduced. Alternatively, Reid began wondering whether there might be an exotic virus at work, such as the one responsible for African horse sickness (AHS), a disease carried by biting midges in sub-Saharan Africa.
~ David Quammen
One Christmas on a school outing to see the local pantomime two pupils stole the pantomime horse costume. They were only found out when several months later they attempted to enter the Grand National.
~ David Walliams
Like most people, Mr Meek thought of himself as someone who was good with animals, even though he'd once been bitten on the bottom by a horse. A pantomime horse. Thinking he could tame this creature, he tiptoed forward and crouched down. Striking another match… STRIKE!
~ David Walliams
A horse," he once said, "is the symbol of the rider's soul.
~ Jay Parini
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.
~ Jean Cocteau
If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck
~ Jeff Foxworthy
subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
~ Elaine Morgan