Water Horses Quotes

#1. Tourists, a lot of them, wearing unfamiliar faces. There is something subtly different about them, like they're a different species ... They're related to us like Dove is related to the water horses.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. The water horses are hungry and wicked, vicious and beautiful, hating us and loving us.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.

Mike Brown

#4. You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it ... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

Tom McNeal

#5. [...] confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches.

William Faulkner

#6. He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger ... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

William Shakespeare

#7. I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.

Kresley Cole

#8. I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

Confucius

#9. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.

Cuthbert Soup

#10. We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and ... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. They were like fire and water, two opposing forces forever lost in an epic rivalry. Quite frankly, it would have been easier attempting to break a deal with wild horses than these two boys.

Louise Gann

#12. There was no safe place in all the world for me. My stomach was filled with ice water. Hearing Domini was the final straw. Something in me broke. All the King's horses and all the King's men would never be able to put me back together again.

Damien Echols

#13. They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of the darkening forest into the flecked and seething pool below.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

John Bruton

#15. Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels ... Such is the real nature of horses.

Zhuangzi

#16. I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way.

Jai Courtney

#17. Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

Albert Sidney Johnston

#18. My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#20. Every breath taken in by the man
Who loves, and the woman who loves,
Goes to fill the water tank
Where the spirit horses drink.

Robert Bly

#21. Chance dug deep into the dirt, his front end rising like a speed boat accelerating through water. I grabbed the saddle horn, surprised by his enthusiasm, but I was just as anxious to run as he was. I gave him the reins to go.

Brittney Joy

#22. there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself.

Alexandre Dumas

#23. Water polo would be much more interesting if they hadn't gotten rid of the horses.

Dov Davidoff

#24. We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

Gordon Taylor