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For all of you who love horses we thought you might enjoy some great quotes about horses from some famous and some not so well known folks.  Perhaps one or two of these will become part of your regular speech.  So. . . here goes!

FEBRUARY 2012

"Horses know nothing of money, status, beauty, or accomplishment.  Horses see only our hearts, and they accept or reject us based on what they find within. In short, horses do naturally what humans can pass a lifetime without ever mastering."

Mary Midkiff, as quoted in The Denver Press

 

JANUARY 2012

He knows when you're happy. He knows when you're comfortable. He knows when you're confident, and he ALWAYS knows when you have carrots."   Unknown

 

DECEMBER 2011

 

"All that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse.  All else is squabble."
Charles Bukowski

 

 

NOVEMBER 2011

"Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
" —
Alice Walker

 

 

OCTOBER 2011

"To be loved by a horse should fill us with awe, for we have not deserved it."
Marion Garretty

 

 

SEPTEMBER 2011

"Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

AUGUST 2011
"But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses"
Jane Smiley (A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
 
 
 

JULY 2011

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music."
Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale)

 

 

JUNE 2011:

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."
Winston S. Churchill

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