Horse Quotes - Page 23

• This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Powerful, Naked

  Ernesto Che Guevara (2013). “The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America”, p.58, Ocean Press

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• What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Blood, Heat

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• changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Mean

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.195, Penguin

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• By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Logic, Should, Needlework

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• Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

  Haruki Murakami

  Way, Path, Realizing

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• We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

  Libba Bray

  Mean, Looks, Blinders

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Your Side, Watches, Three

  Mercedes Lackey (1998). “Oathblood”, p.52, Penguin

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• He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

  Virginia Woolf

  Summer, Heart, Roots

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.8, Lettere Animate Editore

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• Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Running, Rivers, Feet

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• Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Sorry, Nice

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

  Rick Riordan

  Wine, Bottles, Next

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• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Oats, Scotland

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

  Joanne Harris

  Wish, Beggar, Positive Results

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

  Tamora Pierce

  People, Sick, Honor

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.499, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Boys, Race, Pigs

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• I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Baby, Team, Journey

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• Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-

  Obert Skye

  Dream, Rainbow, Castles

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• The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Scare, Faces

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• This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Liars, Bird, Brain

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

  Emily Bronte

  Dog, Heart, Attachment

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Crush, Hero, Intelligent

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?' --Lin If you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!' --Ed

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Want, Firsts, Should

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• Wait until you see him up on a horse

  Linda Lael Miller

  Waiting

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• I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Winning, Race, Half

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to help with that." My minion walked near me, needing no horse to move swiftly. Upon hearing his name, he said, "I would perform the deed with great relish and much suffering on your part, mistress." "You can't put a price on that kind of loyalty," I told Kiyo.

  Richelle Mead

  Loyalty, Moving, Names

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.72, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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