Horse Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

~ John Steinbeck

I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.

~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on a horse, I'm more worried about what the riding hat is doing to my hair than what my bent legs and arms are doing. What riding has given me is respect.

~ Lee Pearson

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

~ Pam Brown

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

~ Stephen Spender

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

~ Joel Silver

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

~ Michael Morpurgo

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

~ Chantal Sutherland

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

~ Dick Schaap

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

~ Carroll Shelby

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.

~ Elizabeth Banks

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

~ Clare Balding

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

~ John Burroughs

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

~ Louis Armstrong

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

~ Alexandra Fuller

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

~ Daniel Boone

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

~ Jimmy Fallon

Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

~ Ilya Ilyin

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

~ Billy Sunday

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

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

~ Charles V

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

~ Jimmy Iovine

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

~ Marcus Aurelius

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

~ Orville Wright

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

~ Michio Kaku

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

~ Leland Ryken

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

~ Henry Mintzberg

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

~ William Banting

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

~ Mary Gaitskill

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

~ Stephen Leacock

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

~ Linda Mccartney

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

~ Douglas Brinkley

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

~ William Wyler

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.

~ Franco Nero

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

~ Alec Issigonis

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

~ Thomas Love Peacock

As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

~ Victoria Pendleton

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

~ Xenophon

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

~ Jane Smiley