Horse Quotes - Page 19

• When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Boys, Littles, Little Boys

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2004.

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• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Years, Interesting

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• When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, People, Car

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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  Plutarch

  Children, Teaching, Personality

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1801). “Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.283

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• Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

  Dennis Quaid

  Running, Animal, Race

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• I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

  Robert Redford

  Space, Mountain, Three

  "Free at Last: The Robert Redford Story". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

  Ann Romney

  Sick, Forget

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• What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

  John Ruskin

  Book, Thinking, Political

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.43, Electric Book Company

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• I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.

  Ricky Schroder

  Growing Up, Remember, Appreciated

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• I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

  Ricky Schroder

  Self Esteem, Acting, Identity

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• I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

  Clara Schumann

  Love, Inspiring, Want

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• I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

  Ariel Sharon

  Beautiful, Son, Vegetables

  "Sharon: I'll solve the Palestinian problem in four years". Interview with Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2003.

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• I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

  William Shatner

  Dog, Ocean, And Love

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• 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

  War, Snow, Guy

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

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• 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

  Generosity, Example, Mystery

  "Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

  Jane Smiley

  Running, Winning, Simple

  "A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck". Book by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 2004.

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• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

  Jane Smiley

  Sports, Art, Long

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• I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

  Jane Smiley

  Riding, Equestrian, Mysterious

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, edition.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  Jane Smiley

  Ideas, Degrees, Way

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

  Patti Smith

  Beauty, England, Records

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

  Patti Smith

  Paris, Drawing

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• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  Patti Smith

  Kings, Voice, People

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

  Steven Spielberg

  Daughter, Mother, Worry

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• The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Stories, Love Story

  "Steven Spielberg discusses War House". Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

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• People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Sky, People

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