We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
Driss: I'm not going in there, even you! I'm not gonna lead you in the back like a horse.
Uncle Willie: [watching Kittredge clumsily mount a horse] Heigh Ho Silver.
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.
One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.
Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume ...
Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And, she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horse's mane, it did not leave once lodged, did it, simply changed form and ask...
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard....
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and t...
Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatant...
And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no ...
There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there ...
