Horse Quotes - Page 25

• Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak

  John Flanagan

  Potatoes, Halt

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• Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

  John Flanagan

  Children, Play, Work Out

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• You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knows, Ifs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

  John Flanagan

  Masters

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• Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Nice, Lying, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

  Jenny Downham

  Flying, Imagine, Breaths

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.

  Brandon Mull

  Parent, World, Littles

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• Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

  Tanith Lee

  Dream, Betray, Fades

  "Night's Master".

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• Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, People, Looks

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.365, Random House

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• As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

  John Flanagan

  Arrows, Sound, Grumbling

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• Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

  John Flanagan

  Losing, Habit, Said

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• We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

  Gayle Forman

  Kings, Men, Together Again

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.15, Penguin

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• Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

  Kristin Cashore

  Impossible Things, People, Want

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.221, Penguin

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• And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Childhood, Wish

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter." "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep." "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.

  Martine Leavitt

  Morning, Fall, Night

  Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.89, Highlights Press

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• Hard to feel confident when you’re surrounded by horse-sized wolves. Emmett Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 39, p.745

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dawn, Chapters, Feels

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• She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Men, Hunters, World

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2011). “King Raven: 3-in-1 of Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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 Mitchell

  Children, Thinking, Silence

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.

  Robin McKinley

  Notebook, Running, Writing

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• Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

  Walt Whitman

  Mystery, Stout, Beam

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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• Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Race, Symbolism

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• I swear on St. Francis, the patron saint of all animals.” Seeing Poppy’s hesitation, Beatrix added enthusiastically, “If a band of pirates kidnapped me and took me to their ship and threatened to make me walk the plank over a shiver of starving sharks unless I told them your secret, I still wouldn’t tell it. If I were tied by a villain and thrown before a herd of stampeding horses all shod in iron, and the only way to keep from being trampled was to tell the villain your secret, I—

  Lisa Kleypas

  Animal, Sharks, Iron

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.54, Macmillan

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• When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Tree, Doubt

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.461, Dell

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• When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

  Jean M. Auel

  Practice, Giving, Bird

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• Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Doubt, Mouths

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.86, Harper Collins

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