Horse Quotes

"The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Black beauty - he's a dark horse"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse"

Julie Benz, Actress

"But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses"

Julie Benz, Actress

"We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"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"

Black Elk, Leader

"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"

Black Elk, Leader

"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

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

Black Elk, Leader

"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language"

Max Frisch, Novelist

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

Bo Derek, Actress

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

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

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"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, Actress

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

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"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, Actress

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing"

Neil Young, Musician

"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

"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, Politician

"My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet"

Tyra Banks, Model

"More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses"

Davy Jones, Musician

"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, Musician

"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

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