Horse Quotes - Page 30

• I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Knights, Riding

  "The wit and wisdom of Madonna" by Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. August 15, 2008.

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• He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Strong, War, Wind

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• I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Xanax, Ideas, Oxycontin

  Rolling Stone Interview, allaboutmadonna.com. December 1, 2005.

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• We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

  Kyle Chandler

  Dog, Couple, Moving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

  Ralph Richardson

  Running, Play, Jockeys

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• At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

  Tim Conway

  Fall, Cleveland, Jockeys

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Money, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Animal, Two

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• It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

  Charles Ives

  Learning, Play, Important

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• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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

  Angelus Silesius

  Men, Clothes, Doe

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

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• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

  Karl Marx

  Doctors, Law, Political

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• 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

  Kyoto, Atmosphere, Levels

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Heart, Knowledge

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• A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

  John Heywood

  Men, Water, May

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.33

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• The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

  Geoffrey Brooke

  Riding, Nerves, Excellent

  Geoffrey Brooke (1913). “Training Young Horses to Jump”

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

  Big Bill Broonzy

  Song, Heard, Folks

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• 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

  Dog, Children, Bird

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts.

  Ty Murray

  Heart, Cowboy

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• A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

  Clarice Lispector

  Simple, Men, Hair

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Soulstorm: Stories”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

  William Fawcett

  Love Is, Race, May

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• We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

  Monica Dickens

  Mind, Matter, Brutes

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• When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."

  Monty Roberts

  Lying, Hands, Discipline

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

  Art Buchwald

  People, World, Exclusive

  Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”

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• There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Class, Two, Equestrian

  1919 Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.

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