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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
I have never had more pleasure than riding a horse naked at a fast gallop across an empty landscape. Riding is life. The rest is just pedestrian.
Chloe Thurlow, A Girl’s Adventures
In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.
Helen Thompson
There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.
Missy Lyons, Cowboys Don’t Sing
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
William Shakespeare, Henry V
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Winston S. Churchill
From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.
George Gaylord Simpson
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
Gerald Raftery
We will never have to tell our horse that we are sad, happy, confident, angry, or relaxed. He already knows – long before we do.
Marijke de Jong
There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
John Lubbock
For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.
Cherry Hill, Making, Not Breaking: The First Year Under Saddle
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
Winston Churchill
Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.
Wendy Williams, The Horse
I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.
Abraham Lincoln
An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
And I learned this long ago, that sweet freedom can be found in the middle of a meadow, upon the back of a faithful mare. Careless and wild we both shall be, on our ride across familiar fields, with steps that blend into the earth below.
Erin Forbes
Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
Ajith Kumar
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
Unknown
There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor and the other is patience.
John Lyons
God forbid I go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Horses change lives. They give young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.
Toni Robinson
There are many wonderful places in the world, but one of my favorite places is on the back of my horse.
Rolf Kopfle
Horses don’t speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you’ll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.
Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Galloping is trust and honesty between horse and rider and pure, amazing energy.
Ella West, Rain Fall
There is a moment after riding when you stop and listen. What you hear is your heartbeat in perfect rhythm with the beat of your horse’s heart. It is a moment of pure magic.
Chloe Thurlow, Girl Trade
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