Horse Quotes - Page 36

• It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  Paul Newman

  Death, Dog, Men

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Team, Sitting

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• I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

  Ted Hendricks

  Football, Practice, Black

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• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Crazy, Native American, Responsibility

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Memories, Flower

  "Flow: For Love of Water". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• 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.

  John Sayles

  Fall, Cowboy, Typewriters

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• The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

  Gough Whitlam

  Running, Memorable, Past

  London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1989.

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• When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

  Stephen Spender

  Fathers Day, Dream, Children

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• I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Army, Battle

  Letter to George B. McClellan, 24 Oct. 1862

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• He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Strong, War, Wind

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• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Animal, Two

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• It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

  Charles Ives

  Learning, Play, Important

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• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

  Angelus Silesius

  Men, Clothes, Doe

  Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”

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• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

  Karl Marx

  Doctors, Law, Political

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.

  Andrey Kapitsa

  Kyoto, Atmosphere, Levels

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Heart, Knowledge

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• A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

  John Heywood

  Men, Water, May

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.33

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• The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

  Geoffrey Brooke

  Riding, Nerves, Excellent

  Geoffrey Brooke (1913). “Training Young Horses to Jump”

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• I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

  Big Bill Broonzy

  Song, Heard, Folks

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• The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts.

  Ty Murray

  Heart, Cowboy

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• A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

  Clarice Lispector

  Simple, Men, Hair

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Soulstorm: Stories”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

  William Fawcett

  Love Is, Race, May

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• We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

  Monica Dickens

  Mind, Matter, Brutes

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• When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."

  Monty Roberts

  Lying, Hands, Discipline

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