Young Horse Quotes

#1. What are the origins of dressage? Did just, one day, some young horse say to his dad, 'Dad, I don't want to charge into battle ... I just wanna dance'?

Stephen Colbert

#2. You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.

Sigrid Undset

#3. Sacrificing her own safety and comfort, a broken young woman lay down in the snow, side by side with a broken young horse.

Kim Meeder

#4. Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

#5. He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#6. You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

Lincoln Steffens

#7. On a horse he still looks like a young man; on the ground he carries the weight of all his years.

Philipp Meyer

#8. Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.

Ovid

#9. Given the chance, would I go back? Back to the time when my parents were alive? When my biggest problem was a past-due paper? When I didn't need to know how to take care of myself, ride a horse, or defend someone I loved? Back to the time when I didn't know Grey?

Kirby Howell

#10. When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."

Monty Roberts

#11. As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Karen Hughes

#12. I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

Robyn Schneider

#13. Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about.

Amy Stewart

#14. I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

Juliana Hatfield

#15. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

Andrew Carnegie

#16. A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past service.

Plutarch

#17. The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Stendhal

#18. If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.

Dick Butkus

#19. The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

#20. For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.

Kim Meeder

#21. We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved.

Louis L'Amour

#22. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

Frederick Douglass

#23. Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.

Mara Dabrishus

#24. When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

Lisi Harrison

#25. There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

Nathaniel Smith

#26. When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted ... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.

Michel De Montaigne

#27. The race for first season sire honours is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere with young stallion Showcasing setting the pace.

Australia

#28. You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.

Mary Doria Russell

#29. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.

Mara Dabrishus

#30. Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Waters

#31. There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat and a stark white rim lined his eyes. All three of us gawked at his sudden silence. The rattling metal gate was now the only sound.

Brittney Joy

#32. The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Martin Clunes

#33. The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts, which consisted, as we have said, of fifteen crowns, the horse, and the letter for M. de Treville - the counsels being thrown into the bargain.

Alexandre Dumas

#34. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#35. When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Roy Rogers

#36. According to Father O'Dowd's description, the seminary catered to both ends of the religious life, training the next crop of young men taking holy orders and providing a retirement home for those closer to discovering if they'd backed the right horse.

David J. Oldman

#37. Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.

Mara Dabrishus

#38. No matter what, my chest always tightens up before a race. A rush of adrenaline spikes all the way down my spine, and it's like I'm right there. Right on top of Kali, squeezed in that metal stall, looking out at the dirt with my heart in my throat. The starter opens the gates, and the bell rings.

Mara Dabrishus

#39. As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses ...

Bill Henson

#40. Malta," he said, and smiled. "Possibly the most annoying young female I've ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?

Robin Hobb

#41. A young trooper should have an old horse.

Henry George Bohn

#42. A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

Georg Riedel

#43. One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#44. When the striped pole slips by I slide low in the saddle and give Kali room to go. One moment she's bottled up, and the next she's a stream of copper, her chestnut mane smacking me hard in the face while her strides lengthen and everything becomes a droning rumble of hooves and wind.

Mara Dabrishus

#45. If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

Robert Morley

#46. The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

Geoffrey Brooke

#47. If you kill me, you will lose your soul and your son to the sky," I warned, my eyes straying briefly to his young son who met my gaze, his hands clinging to the mane of his enormous horse. "Kneel!

Amy Harmon

#48. Yeah, well. Don't be that guy, Brady. Don't be the guy who loves his horse too much.

Katrina Abbott