Quotes of: Wild-horses Keyword

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

The Phoenix Endangered

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

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends." The horse nickered. "Uh, maybe later," Percy answered. Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action. ...

The Mark of Athena

there grew up around the campfires stories of a great silver stallion seen galloping over wind-packed snow way up on the Ramshead Range; of a ghost horse that drank at the Crackenback River; of a horse that all men thought was dead appearing in a bli...

Elyne Mitchell

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote...

Ellen Potter

I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; n...

Michael Mann

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

Coal Black Horse

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

All the Pretty Horses

C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.I.T.Y.: it’s not so much the thing itself, but the side effects that kill you – the opportunistic infections of misinterpretation and politics – and the parasites that come with it.

A Horse Named Sorrow

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

A Horse Named Sorrow

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.

A Horse Named Sorrow

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

As I Lay Dying

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

Ray Bradbury

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Jane Smiley

The dragon turned on the children and unicorns, his mouth open. For a brief moment, they could see his eyes change from blue to a deep red, like coals in a fire. It was almost as if another, fiercer dragon looked at them through Zebedia’s eyes.

The Legend of Wild Horse Beach

Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top." Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!" This time Ario...

The Son of Neptune

What I have realized through practicing is that practice isn't about beng the best horse or the good horse or the poor horse or the worst horse.

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Where do thoroughbreds go after they lose one too many races, throw one too many riders, or develop a limp? Many thousands of thoroughbreds end up being slaughtered for horse meat. The unpleasant truth is horse meat is eaten in Europe and Asia.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

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

Capt. Boots Finch: So this is the man that shoot Ned Pepper's horse from under him. Rooster Cogburn: This is the famous Horse Killer from El Paso he believes in putting everyone a foot says there will be less mischief that way. LaBoeuf: Fewer Horses ...

True Grit

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West