Top 100 Quotes About A Rider
#1. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.
Robert Smith
#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. I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.
Valentino Rossi
#5. And while they were in the same place, there came a great mist about them and a darkness, so that they could not know what way they were going, and they heard the noise of a rider coming towards them. 'It would be a great grief to us,' said Conn, 'to be brought away into a strange country.
Lady Augusta Gregory
#6. It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane
#7. Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
Miguel Indurain
#8. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
Philip Gourevitch
#9. HERE LIES BROM
Who was
A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
Son of Holcomb and Nelda
Beloved of Selena
Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
Founder of the Varden
And Bane of the Forsworn.
May his name live on in glory.
Stydja unin mo'ranr
Christopher Paolini
#10. I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
Davy Jones
#11. Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.
Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere
#12. Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#13. There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.
Gary Cooper
#14. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
or want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horse shoe nail.
Unknown Author 386
#15. Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)
Earle Gray
#16. There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode
and never a rider that could'nt be throwed
Gary Cooper
#17. The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
Jonathan Haidt
#18. I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Major Taylor
#19. But talent - if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.
Elizabeth Hand
#20. But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
Feist
#21. Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
Buffalo Bill
#22. Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
Cornelia Funke
#23. Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
Valentino Rossi
#24. The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does.
Jonathan Haidt
#25. Juliet wondered if the woman even knew what a Rider was. She made loud noises and loved jewelry. Other than that, Juliet couldn't think of a way to describe her.
Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
#26. A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.
Nuno Oliveira
#27. I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!
Rik Mayall
#29. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
Lance Armstrong
#30. Now there is a fitting sword for a Rider and dragon! said Saphira in a delighted tone. It breathes fire as easily as I do.
Christopher Paolini
#31. To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#32. Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
#34. RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the northwest corner of the room, wearing aviator sunglasses and her trusted snow hat that reads, 'No Coffee, No Workee," a motto in life that she will continue to stand by in the afterlife.
Amy Schumer
#35. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
H. Rider Haggard
#36. You two have a lot of balls coming here."
Kynan gestured to Arik. "He does. I'm charmed. Nothing can hurt me. Or my balls.
Larissa Ione
#37. Rider/Host relationship is not always one-sided. In fact, many benefits are extended to the Host as well. It can survive up to double the life expectancy of a normal human (between 150 and 200 years), depending on a number of
Pete Kahle
#38. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.
Diane Crump
#40. It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Laurent Jalabert
#41. I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.
Rachel Johnson
#42. HERE LIES BROM
Who was a Dragon Rider
And like a father
To me.
May his name live on in glory.
Christopher Paolini
#43. Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.
William Shakespeare
#44. You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.
Rider Strong
#45. It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
H. Rider Haggard
#46. 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
Dennis Hopper
#47. Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#48. Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
H. Rider Haggard
#49. Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.
Michael Biehn
#51. Boy, you're like a horse.
Just now sated with seed,
You've come back to my stable,
Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow,
An icy spring, shady groves.
Theognis Of Megara
#52. It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.
John Flanagan
#53. Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.
Wilbur Smith
#54. When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
Nuno Oliveira
#55. You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels ... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.
Bruce Springsteen
#56. Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.
Dean Koontz
#57. I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.
Jerry Hall
#58. I JUST FINISHED READING WOLF RIDER SUCH A GOOD BOOK...YOU HAVE TO TO READ IT!!!!
Avi
#59. There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
Rider Strong
#60. What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.
H. Rider Haggard
#61. I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)
Danny Lyon
#62. Don't ever call yourself weak, because you aren't, you're a warrior and warriors can move mountains because mountains are no match for a true warrior such as yourself
Rider
#63. He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
John Dryden
#64. Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.
H. Rider Haggard
#66. A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.
H. Rider Haggard
#67. Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.
Reiner Klimke
#68. When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
Rebecca De Mornay
#69. The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner
Richard Shrake
#70. Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
#71. Nurses who determine the need for restraints must obtain a physician's order as soon as possible.
Janice Rider Ellis
#72. She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt.
'Where are your gods now?' she said.
Joel Shepherd
#73. And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.
Bernard Cornwell
#74. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
#75. I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.' Vega
Amanda Hocking
#76. I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.
Ron Perlman
#77. It was cheerful inside, without the aggressive Easy Rider feel of some of the other tattoo parlors in the city, where the handle-jawed thugs wielding the tattoo guns looked like ink was just a side job, their main work, contract killings.
Marisha Pessl
#78. This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
Cormac McCarthy
#80. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#81. I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.
Nicolas Cage
#82. He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnight rider.
Nancy B. Brewer
#83. The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider ... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
#85. I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' ... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'
Benedict Cumberbatch
#86. The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent superstition of man, but because it so often is terrible. He who would tamper with the vast and secret forces that animate the world may well fall a victim to them.
H. Rider Haggard
#87. The horse must understand and accept any demands made by rider without any resistance. Reward the horse each time he does what is asked of him. Never ask for more than he is capable of giving. Make him a COMPANION, and not a slave, then you will see what a true friend he is.
Nuno Oliveira
#88. There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
H. Rider Haggard
#89. You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.
John Flanagan
#90. A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a strong lower body. You've gotta have quick reflexes, and you've got to be incredibly coordinated. But it's you're instincts that have to be perfect. You can't be an exceptional rider without instincts.
Chantal Sutherland
#92. I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.
Ty Murray
#93. I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.
Ben Affleck
#94. There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse ...
Tamora Pierce
#95. Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows.
H. Rider Haggard
#96. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.
H. Rider Haggard
#97. It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.
Dennis Hopper
#98. He squeezes his eyes shut and tries to steady his breathing, then he decides that's stupid. He's come this far, he's handcuffed to the bed, he's about to let a tattooed part-time drag queen in thigh-high leather boots fuck him. What's the point of trying for self-control?
Richard Rider
#99. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#100. When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
