Horse Quotes

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.

Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.

The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

Ride your horse calm, forward and then make him straight.

I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.

There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

The country has gone sane and got back to horses.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.