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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 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 Death rode out, but found himself guiding the white horse down the track to the orchard. He stopped in front of one particular tree, and stared at it for some time. Eventually he said: LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME. - Terry Pratchett 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 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 Some need diamonds some need love Some need cards some need luck Some need dollar bills lining their clo...

Trojan Horse Quotes

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled. - Daniel Greenberg Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. - Rebecca West

The Horse Quotes

To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this? - J R R Tolkien Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business. - Franklin P Jones The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. - Joey Adams The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane. - Cassandra Clare Oh, I can never get enough," he said. "Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - " The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, a...

Riding A Horse Quotes

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ..That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do. - Li Young Lee

Horse Sense Quotes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness. - Kurt Vonnegut Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W C Fields Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. - Benjamin Spock Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. - Billy Sunday

Horse Riding Quotes

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her. - Jan De Bont I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing. - Oded Fehr As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. - Patrick Stewart

Horse Racing Quotes

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. - John Steinbeck The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally. - Nat King Cole A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. - Will Rogers Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. - Laura Hillenbrand Horse racing is animated roulette. - Roger Kahn My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack. - Bode Miller On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodi...

Horse Meat Quotes

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds. - Diane Ackerman Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack) - Rick Riordan

Draft Horse Quotes

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 The ticking was gone from my mind and all was quiet everywhere in the world and I held the curtain like I held the sound of the bullets going into the draft horse, his favourite, in the barn, one two three, and I stood at the window in Stevie's jacket and looked and waited and still the rain kept coming down outside one two three and I was thinking oh what a small sky for so much rain. - Colum Mccann