Horseback Quotes

• In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

  Mike Oldfield

  Summer, Rain, Winter

  Song: On Horseback

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• Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

  Genghis Khan

  Leader, World, Dictator

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• I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

  Eva Herzigova

  Riding, Jersey, Horseback Riding

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• I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

  Sam Elliott

  Careers, People, Motorcycle

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

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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

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• I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

  Paul Walker

  Cowboy

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• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Directors, Singers, Riders

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• The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Journey, June, Mexico

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11

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• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Hands, Opera, Knees

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• I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

  William John Wills

  Practice, Ideas, Camels

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.102, London : R. Bentley

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• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  Ric Keller

  Swimming, Hunting, Years

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• My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

  Douglas Preston

  Kayaking, Hiking, Cooking

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• Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
  The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goes On, Revolution, Cannons

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.267, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

  Kublai Khan

  Empires, Conquer, Heard

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• Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

  Martin Luther

  Men, Alcohol, Sides

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• A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Men, Feet

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.51, University of Arizona Press

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• The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

  Sidney Hook

  Leadership, Hero, Men

  Sidney Hook (1978). “The Hero in History: Myth, Power, Or Moral Ideal? : Remarks”

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• I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

  Kate Upton

  Use, Riders, Know How

  "Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 22, 2014.

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• Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.

  Robert Greenberg

  Children, Teaching, Successful

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• Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Men, Causes

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• The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control.

  Yutaka Katayama

  Horse, Fun, Car

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• But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

  Joan Rivers

  Party, Humor, Night

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Race, People, Trying

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• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Coward, Bed

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• A Woman never looks better than on horseback

  Jane Austen

  Horse, Looks

  Jane Austen (2001). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.93, Broadview Press

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