Horse Quotes:

Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.

source: Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.305, Doubleday

topic: Horse, Important, Principles

Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

topic: Horse, Demand, Want

The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

topic: Teacher, Horse, Art, Dressage, Classical Art

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

source: Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.25, Doubleday

topic: Horse, Art, School, Classical Art

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Dog, Horse, Elephants, Emanate, Clouded

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Dog, Horse, Children

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France â€¦

- Amanda Shires

topic: Song, Horse, Hate

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

topic: Horse, Wife, Society, Noblemen, English Society

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

topic: Horse, Children, Men

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

topic: Life, Nature, Horse

So with the stretch of the white road before me, Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun, Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

topic: Horse, Animal, Eagles, Zoology

- Amy Lowell

source: Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Running, Strong, Horse

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

- Amy Lowell

topic: Horse, War, Soldier

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

- Andre Breton

topic: Horse, Men, Imagination

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Soccer, Horse, Children

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Horse, Winning

It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

- Andrew Carnegie

source: Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.28, 谷月社

topic: Horse, Cousin, Dark, Dark Horse

Bring me a horse and I am yours forever

- Andrew Hussie

topic: Horse, Forever

The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.

- Andrey Kapitsa

topic: Horse, Kyoto, Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide

There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

- Andy Adams

source: Andy Adams (2015). “The Log of a Cowboy”, p.85, Booklassic

topic: Horse, May, Faces, Equine

Any horse can win on any given day.

- Angel Cordero, Jr.

topic: Horse, Winning, Racing, Horse Racing

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

- Angelus Silesius

source: Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”

topic: Horse, Men, Clothes

I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

- Ann M. Martin

topic: Horse, School, Independent, Milkman, Spirited

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

- Ann Romney

topic: Horse, Sick, Forget

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

- Ann-Marie MacDonald

source: Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.41, Vintage Canada

topic: Horse, Kings, Fall, Upkeep

He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.

I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

topic: Horse, Children, Fire

topic: Horse, Character, Passion, Giving Way, Animal Ethics

He is called the horse

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

topic: Horse

Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.

source: Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford

topic: Horse, Giving, Twenties

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...

source: Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.6, Mind Melodies

topic: Sports, Hurt, Horse, Good Horse, Why Me

My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out of the house! There was no watching television on weekends.

source: Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies

topic: Horse, Light, Hands

- Anna Torv

topic: Mom, Horse, Weekend

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Dog, Horse, Writing, Cat And Dog, Dog Food

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

- Anne Truitt

topic: Horse, Generosity, Stalking

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.

- Anne Truitt

source: Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Horse, Rain, Creativity, Catapults, Holding Back

When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

- Anne, Princess Royal

topic: Horse, Fall, Water

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

- Anson Mount

topic: Horse, Riding, Experts

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

- Anson Mount

topic: Horse

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Horse, Kissing, Offense

A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

- Anthony Trollope

topic: Horse, Doe, Lame, Showy

You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.

- Antoine de Pluvinel

topic: Horse, Educated, Rely, Equestrian

In training horses, one trains himself

- Antoine de Pluvinel

topic: Horse, Training, Train

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Horse, Lying, Taken, Orange Trees, Sweating

The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Horse, Moving, Eye, Thickness, Naked Eyes

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.

- Antony Gormley

topic: Horse, Adventure, Islands, Horseback, Regions

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

topic: Horse, Men, White, White Horse, Red Ribbon

The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

source: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.194, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Horse, Memories, Real

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Horse, Men, Pigs

The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

- Ardyth Kennelly

source: Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

topic: Summer, Horse, Fall, White Horse, Rolling Over

I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Beautiful, Horse, Son, Cattle

You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey.

- Arrigo Sacchi

topic: Sports, Horse, Jockeys, Inspirational Soccer, Motivational Soccer

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

- Arrigo Sacchi

source: "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Horse, Jockeys, Firsts

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Horse, People, World

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Horse, Past, Ears, Greyhounds

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Horse, Ends, Middle, Crafty

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Horse, Queens, Book

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

- Arthur Honegger

topic: Horse, Creatures, Locomotives

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Horse, Used, Trojans, Trojan Horse, Colonial Times

Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Girl, Sweet, Horse, Debutantes, Sweet Girl

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

- Ashley Rickards

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, Shows, Wells, Horse Show

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

source: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

topic: Horse, Loss, Fire, Expressive, Countenance

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

- Augustus Hare

topic: Horse, Public Opinion, Holding On, Reins

A horse is simply a horse.

- Avicenna

topic: Horse

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

- Barack Obama

topic: Horse, Bayonets, Election, Aircraft Carriers, Presidential Debate

And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Horse, Home, Crusades, Jim Crow

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: Horse, Humanity, Earth, Depopulation, Population Control

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Horse, Home, Tired, Way Home

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

topic: Morning, Horse

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Horse, Kings, Government, Darius, Electoral Process

When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

- Barbara Woodhouse

topic: Horse, Twenties, Yards

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

- Barry McCaffrey

topic: Horse, Views, Drug

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Horse, Adversity, Hook, Alabama Football, Heavy Loads

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

- Bela Bartok

topic: Inspiring, Horse, Artist, Classical Composers, Pianist

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

- Bella Freud

topic: Horse, Wildlife, Obsessed

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

- Ben Jonson

source: Ben Jonson (2014). “Epicoene or The Silent Woman”, p.63, A&C Black

topic: Horse, Wine, Plies

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Horse, Rivers, Wind

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Horse, Stars, Eye, Giddy, Cavalry

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Horse, Thinking, Packs

The canter is a cure for every evil.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Horse, Evil, Sickness, Equestrian

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Horse, Anger, Passion

He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Horse, Drink, Cider

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Horse, Fear, Children, Misbehaving, Horse Sense

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

- Bernadette Devlin

topic: Horse, Bored, Silence, Subject Matter

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Horse, Kings, Philosophy, Learn To Fly, Reprieve

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

- Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae

topic: Horse, Class, Racing, Mislead, Lower Class

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

- Bert Sugar

topic: Sports, Horse, Kings, Drag Racing, Horse Racing

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

- Beryl Markham

source: Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.133, Open Road Media

topic: Horse, Emotional, Lovely, Cowboy Wisdom, Cowboys And Horses

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Dog, Horse, Believe

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Horse, Heart, Men

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Inspirational, Horse, Fall

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Jesus, Determination, Horse

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

- Bette Midler

topic: Country, Horse, Book

My two great loves are music and horses.

- Betty Buckley

source: Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.

topic: Horse, Two, Great Love

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

- Betty Grable

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Horse, Night, Men, Betting

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

- Betty Smith

topic: Fake People, Horse, Wonderful, Fireplaces, Parlor

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

- Big Bill Broonzy

topic: Song, Horse, Heard

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

- Bill Barich

source: Bill Barich (2015). “Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack”, p.211, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Horse, Pockets, Loser

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.

- Bill Linderman

topic: Sports, Horse, Bulls

Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.

- Bill Maher

topic: Country, Religious, Horse

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Horse, Men, May, Racers

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

- Billie Holiday

topic: Horse, Thinking, Car, Manure, Gallons

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

- Billy Graham

topic: Horse, Teaching, Heart, Deceitful, Moral Failure

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Horse, Baptism, Needs, Horse Sense

Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses. ~Kyoya

- Bisco Hatori

topic: Horse, Way, Path, Way Of Love

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt

topic: Dance, Horse, Dancing

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

topic: Hurt, Horse, Crazy, Crazy Horse

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

topic: Horse, Animal, Numbers

Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

topic: Summer, Horse, Years, Nine Years

- Black Kettle

topic: Horse, Believe, Native American, Indigenous, Two Hearts

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well are to a man as the race is to a horse.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Horse, Believe, Men

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

- Blanche Willis Howard

source: Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

topic: Horse, Cures

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

- Bo Derek

topic: Dream, Beach, Horse, Southern California, Sailing And Love

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

- Bo Derek

topic: Horse, Years, Two

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Horse, Character, Who Cares, Beating A Dead Horse

All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Horse, Tired, Done

To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

- Bob Lewis

topic: Horse, Winning, Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, Derby

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

- Bob Monkhouse

topic: Horse, Funny Relationship, Wife

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

- Bode Miller

topic: Horse, Fun, Racing, Horse Racing

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

- Bohumil Hrabal

topic: Beautiful, Horse, Names

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

topic: Mom, Horse, Dad, Critters

The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

- Brad Pitt

topic: Horse, Successful, Choices

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

- Bradley Whitford

source: "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

topic: Horse, Home, Thinking, Acumen, Roost

It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Horse, Parent, World

A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Horse, Wall, Doors, Staircases, Overlapping

It may be broadly stated that.....of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless.

- Bret Harte

topic: Horse, Passion, Animal

For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!

- Brian Clough

topic: Soccer, Horse, Mean, Knighthood

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

- Brooklyn Decker

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Friendship, Mom, Horse

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

- Bruce Boxleitner

topic: Horse, Years, Lasts

Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.

- Bruce Boxleitner

topic: Horse

Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

- Bruce Catton

source: Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

topic: Horse, War, Men, Horsemen, Tied

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

- Bryan Callen

topic: Horse, Car, Guy, Horsepower

Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride.

- Bryan Davis

topic: Horse, Heart, Pride, Good Horse

I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

Theoretically the human is supposed to be the smart one so as you get acquainted with the horse, you explore what it's going to take for him to understand what you would like him do, with as little trouble as possible. You're trying to avoid conflict, not trying to create it.

topic: Horse, Training, Legs, Exceed

The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

topic: Horse, Smart, Trying

You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.

topic: Horse, Trying, Helping

Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues. But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm. You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.

topic: Horse, People, Tunes

I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.

topic: Horse, Mean, Thinking, Great Dance

That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.

topic: Horse, Believe, Waiting, Just Say No, Negative Behavior

The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

topic: Horse, Dark, Light

As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.

topic: Horse, Powerful, Care, Horsemen, Equestrian

The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. All he wants you to do is just leave him alone. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.

topic: Horse, People, Prejudice, Versus, Face Value

You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

topic: Horse, Mean, Giving

With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.

topic: Horse, Use, Baggage

Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

topic: Horse, Wall, Doors

I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension of the horse and him to be an extension of me. That's what I'm always working toward when I'm on a horse.

topic: Horse, Jobs, Winning

Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

topic: Horse, Feet, People

I just spend my life driving down the road, training horses and helping people.

topic: Horse, Forgiving, Filling

And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid...You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.

topic: Horse, People, Training, Driving Down The Road, Down The Road

Horses aren't lazy and they're not greedy and they're not jealous and they're not spiteful, they're not hateful. They're not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.

topic: Horse, Kids, People

The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether they need to accept you really is directly relative to how you make them feel.

topic: Horse, Jealous, Views, Spiteful, Not Jealous

The horse is a gift to us, to humanity. And for that, there comes responsibility. If the horse is gonna work for you and work with you, then the best thing I can do for the horse is to make it as good a life possible.

topic: Horse, Live In The Moment, Needs

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

topic: Horse, Responsibility, Humanity

Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

topic: Horse, Teaching

There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.

topic: Horse

Your Horse is a mirror to your soul.

topic: Horse, Done, Humans

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is

topic: Horse, Mirrors, Soul

Anytime you are with a horse, no matter if you are a daily rider or one who just gets a chance to ride to the mailbox, you are interacting with your horse. It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

topic: Horse, Honesty, Men

Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.

topic: Horse, Communication, Quality, Mailboxes

A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.

topic: Horse, Real, Two

The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to overcome otherwise.

topic: Horse, Opportunity, Next

Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why wouldn't you do those things? No matter what your horse's age, you are going to try to offer him the best that you can. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. There is always hope.

topic: Horse, People, Might

A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.

topic: Horse, Age, Trying, Horsemanship