Dressage Rider Quotes

#1. You get that horse to really operate as if he's your legs and you can take that anywhere you want. You can dress up in any kind of clothes you like. You can be a jumper, dressage rider, trail rider, cowboy, anything.

Buck Brannaman

#2. Great dressage demands more than skill; it engages a rider's inner wisdom and his ability to communicate with a mount in the silent language of horsemanship.

Elizabeth Letts

#3. Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.

James Salter

#4. Oft times, anger was all I had, my sole defining characteristic. It clung to me like an insecure girlfriend, and I put as little effort into sloughing it off.

Bobby Adair

#5. Dies iral, dies illa
Solvet Saeclum in Favilla
Teste David cum Silylla
That Day of Wrath, that day of burning
Seer and Sibly speak concerning
All the world to ashes turning

George Smith

#6. When God created us, did he actually intend to make us so ugly?

Bo Yang

#7. The music that I was playing and writing in those early years, that I was importing to Europe, was quintessentially New York music in a way that I always hoped it would be. I wanted my concert music to be as distinctive as Zappa at the Fillmore East, and I think I ended up doing that.

Philip Glass

#8. I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
If we do not speak, who will?

Staceyann Chin

#9. The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony ... a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.

Walter Zettl

#10. Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Harold Evans

#11. Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner - a twelve-hundred-pound four-footed beast.

Elizabeth Letts

#12. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. God created you for His higher purpose and for your better good

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

Rob Sheffield

#15. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.

Emma Goldman

#16. The stallion's crest was arched, his nose was perpendicular to the floor, and his hind legs were gathered underneath him, showing off the powerfully developed muscles in his massive hindquarters. His ears cocked back toward his rider - he was concentrating.

Elizabeth Letts