- Nov 07, 2020
Horse Quotes
Most Famous Horse Quotes of All Time!
Horses become a metaphor for going with life's flow in this collection, with one line urging riders to move in the direction the horse already wants to go. Others speak fondly of missing a horse left behind. Explore more Like quotes on animals and metaphor.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt good when I did a stunt, and if it was really dangerous - like if I got out on a horse or a bull that was rank, or jumped out of this building on a bag - I felt great.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
- Circling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sioux was always a horse culture, especially the Lakota Sioux. My mom is from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; my dad is from a Sioux Indian reservation. Both tribes are Lakota.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
One quote describes a once-in-a-lifetime horse that carries a rider through an entire career, while another compares industry favorably to genius as a path to success. See Great and Good quotes too.