12 quotations for the Year of the Horse

By Eugene Clark
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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.

You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

― Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, Charlie the Horse

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

― Clare Balding, My Animals and Other Family

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

― Pam Brown

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

― Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

― Ovid

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

― Paul Bryant

 

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