Gallop Quote by Isabella Bird

“Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild…

— Julien Gracq

I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

— Jenny Downham

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always…

— Anonymous

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick…

— Isabella Bird

“He suddenly felt the intense sad loveliness of being as being, apart from right or wrong: that, indeed, the mere fact of being was…

— T.H. White

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was…

— Nevil Shute

“All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all…

— Kenneth Grahame

“Bar-tailed godwits flying with curlew, with knot, with plover; seldom alone, seldom settling; snuffling eccentrics; long-nosed, loud-calling sea-rejoicers; their call a snorting, sneezing, mewing,…

— J.A. Baker

“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle All through the meadows…

— Anonymous

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

— Gautama Buddha

“Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep into sight, borne now upon a cloud of phantom dust. They…

— William Faulkner

“Though the mules plod in a steady and unflagging hypnosis, the vehicle does not seem to progress. It seems to hang suspended in the…

— William Faulkner