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Quotes About Hoofs

A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I'm Satan. I can deal with that and play "Smoke on the Water" while getting a lap dance on a runaway train all at the same time.
~ Richard Kadrey
Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
~ Edmund Burke
And the Angels…were frozen in hard marble silence and at a distance life awoke, and there was a rattle of lean wheels, a slow clangor of shod hoofs. And he heard the whistle wail along the river. Yet, as he stood for the last time by the Angels, he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet he does not say "The town is near," but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring hills...
~ Thomas Wolfe
They rode, eighteen ill-natured, uncomfortable cowboys, tumultuously away from the camp, where canvas bulged and swayed, and loose corners cracked like pistol shots, over the hill where even the short, prairie grass crouched and flattened itself against the sod; where stray pebbles, loosened by the ungentle tread of pitching hoofs, skidded twice as far as in calm weather.
~ Zane Grey
A sharp clip-crop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.
~ Zane Grey