It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Horse People may be heads of state or professionally unemployed in their private lives, but horses are their passion, as Jerusalem was… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and… — Thomas Blundeville Copy Share Image
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“In horse racing they put these slats on either side of the horse's head, blocking the creature's peripheral vision. They're called blinders.… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I… — Cody Fern Copy Share Image
The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink… — Gunther Blumentritt Copy Share Image
I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
People said I was a leader. Here's the kind of leader I was. I made sure toilets were clean. I made sure… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you… — Margery Williams Copy Share Image
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever… — Rudolf G. Binding Copy Share Image
I got into circuses and put on circuses in the backyard. My dad had horses and he'd bring them and we'd do… — Adam Page Copy Share Image
I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
