Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Owen

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

Horses just run for her. That's all you can say.

Dakota Fanning

I had never been around horses at all. That's why I wanted to do it.

Gigi Hadid

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.

But it was all tongue in cheek. That said more to me about the man than anything else. I had no idea and there had been no pressure on me before the race or the night before not to ride his horse to win.

Neil Gaiman

I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.

John Naisbitt

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

John Newton

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

John Muir

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

John Webster

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

John Wayne

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

John Wayne

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

John Wayne

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Waters

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and puzzled. If they can get a horn into me, that's a little triumph.

John Steinbeck

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

John Steinbeck

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

John Steinbeck

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

John Steinbeck

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

John Sayles

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

Sebastian Coe

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Scott Simon

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Tom Hiddleston

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.

Socrates

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Socrates

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Sienna Guillory

I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

Mercedes Lackey

Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.

Michael Morpurgo

This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

Michael Morpurgo

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

Theodore Roosevelt

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Margaret Mitchell

You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

Margaret Fuller

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.