White Horse Quotes

• My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Mother, Horse

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• ...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

  Mary Stewart

  Horse, Moon, Light

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• Won't you ride my white horse?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Horse, White

  Twitter post from Sep 07, 2015

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• The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

  George R. R. Martin

  Horse, Kissing, White

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.320, Bantam

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• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Memorable, Animal

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7

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• I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Horse, Princess, White

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.

  George Jung

  Blow, People, Plans

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• The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.

  James Brown

  Horse, White, Alcohol

  Song: King Heroin

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• She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you'll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Horse, Fall

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

  Franco Nero

  Horse, Children, First Love

  "Franco Nero: No escaping Django". Interview with Phelim O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Horse, Men, White

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

  Matthew Arnold

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 4

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• So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.

  George Jung

  Summer, Jesus, Horse

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• Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

  John Constable

  Feelings, Emotion, Painting

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Cutting, White

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

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• Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Wise, Dream, Hero

  H.P. Lovecraft (2015). “The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  Frank Langella

  Sexy, Horse, Men

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• Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
  The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
  For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
  Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Horse, Past

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  Gary Cooper

  Beauty, Horse, Mean

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• there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach. People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care. Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers. Our relationships will improve dramatically when we stop rescuing others and stop expecting them to rescue us.

  Melody Beattie

  Teacher, Horse, Responsibility

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• As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

  Christine Keeler

  Girl, Horse, Real

  "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Horse, White, Guy

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• That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

  J.R. Ward

  Horse, White, Pay

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.356, Penguin

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• This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Horse, Thinking, Ideas

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