Horse Quotes - Page 29

• You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

  Walter Farley

  Running

  "The Black Stallion Adventures".

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• Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Two, Phones, Air

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.47, Knopf

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• Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Men, Race, Blood

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top." Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!" This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing. "Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that.

  Rick Riordan

  Saying Less, Laughing, Watches

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• Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?” “Long story.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Two, Long

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• I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. ... Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Boys, Hands, Ideas

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• Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low whistle. "Are you sure? How can you tell?" It wasn't a sensible question, but Erak was overwhelmed by the size of the horse herd and he asked the question more for something to say than for any other reason. Halt looked at him dryly. "It's an old calvary trick," he said. "You count the legs and divide by four.

  John Flanagan

  Numbers, Twelve, Teeth

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• You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.

  John Flanagan

  Halt, Said, Spoil

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• You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing." "Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too." Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Son, Neptune

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• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Rocks, Views, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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• All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

  e. e. cummings

  Gold, Dawn, Riding

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Sorry, Mean

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• [O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit

  Margery Williams

  Real, People, Skins

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• Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

  R. A. Salvatore

  Ideas, Mind, Wizards

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.117, Wizards of the Coast

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Struggle, Swimming, Boys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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• I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Men, Pigs

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• Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

  Anna Sewell

  Light, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies

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• Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Honey, Break, Happens

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• Want a sugar cube? [...] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I . . . well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [...] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Sweet, Years

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• The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: "Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Medicine, Space

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• Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

  Steven Spielberg

  Home, War Horse, Wherever You Are

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• I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Years, Bed, Yards

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• Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Shoes, Satisfaction

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.77, Bantam

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• Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked. “Do you really have an answer?” he countered. “You need to get off your horse and run with your men. You don’t have the stamina for a long fight. And find a lighter sword.” “But it was my uncle’s.” “You’re not your uncle.” “But I’m the King, and this is the King’s sword,” Cahil said. His brows creased together. He seemed confused. “So wear it to your coronation,” I said. “If you use it in battle, you’ll be wearing it to your funeral,” I said.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Running, Uncles, Kings

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Savages

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