Top 1200 Race Horses Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.

I just love being around horses. Once it gets in your blood, the passion, you can't get out.

Because of the new regulations the regulators have put, they're testing these horses at contaminated levels and it's been a horrible experience.

On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.

We have many companies, I say pouring back into America. I think that's going to have a huge, positive impact on race relations. You know why? It's jobs. What people want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with good pay. And when they have that, you watch how race relations will be.

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd.

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle.

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.

Once I hit my 30s, I realized I needed to make changes, so I moved to the country to spend time with my horses.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.

Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I don't think I started kicking a ball until I was six or seven. Horses were my first love, so I was occupied with that.

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

I'd prefer no practices and just Saturday, Sunday. Just qualify Saturday morning, race Saturday afternoon, and race again Sunday. Less laps of nonsense and more laps of meaningful business.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.