Horseback Quotes

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

There’s a sureness to good writing even when what’s being written about doesn’t make all that much sense. It’s the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

In summer winter rain or sun, it’s good to be on horseback.

You youngsters nowadays think you’re to begin with living well and working easy; you’ve no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority…for his admirers.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them…..Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven’t discovered yet that it’s not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

My name, the McGregor name, my family’s motto … means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I’ll whoop his ass in July.

If I were to leave the U.S., I’d live in England. But I’d never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

I’m very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There’s something very universal about anyone who’s on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there’s still a horse between your legs.

There’s nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: ‘We’ll walk it together, old dear.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I’m kind of terrified of being up there.

I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o’clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

I’d like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

On horseback you feel as if you’re moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

I love horseback riding. I still do it.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

I’ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

I ride horseback – arthritic knees permitting – or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it’s hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

I don’t think there’s anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it’s wonderful.

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I’ve always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding – it cures everything.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical ‘dead white male,’ is the dead white male on horseback.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can’t be part of the party. Meaning, you can’t go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you’re going to make a joke about her that night.

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z .В The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don’t like human control.