I Ride Horses Quotes

“Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.”

— Jury Nel

“Yeah, well, if wishes were horses I wouldn't need a ride home.”

— Robert J. Crane

“They rode back, Rawlins leading the riderless horse by the bridlereins. Blevins was sitting in the middle of the road. He still had his hat on. Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off. He stood uncertainly and peered about.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

— Robert Jordan

“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Oh, my. The Marques of Jonesborough requests that I join him for a ride in his phaeton this afternoon; only he fears my beauty will blind his horses." The end of the sentence was swallowed by Alex's own disbelieving giggle. "Surely he can't think I would take that seriously.”

— Sarah MacLean

“You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass.”

— Jay Woodman

“I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.”

— Andrea Bocelli

“I ride horses once in a while, but I'm no expert. I hold on for dear life.”

— Emily Robison

“Wishes aren't horses and I don't get to ride.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive!”

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

“I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more.”

— Riley Smith

“I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.”

— Bo Derek

“One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.”

— Glenn Ford

“I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.”

— Sprague Grayden

“I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.”

— Ian Millar

“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.”

— Minka Kelly

“And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.”

— Casper Van Dien

“He's a good horse," Bellamy said, a bit defensively. "He was always willing if you knew how to manage him. Oh, you know, like most horses, he'd get away with whatever he could, but he was never mean-tempered. Not like this."
Ash liked the fact that Bellamy stood up for his horse. "How long has he been off his feed?"
"Couple weeks."
"What's his name?"
"Crusher."
Ash raised an eyebrow. "Crusher?" At the sound of his name, the gelding's ears pricked forward.
Bellamy grimaced. "He's a warhorse, all right? Man doesn't want to ride into battle on a horse named Daisy.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.”

— Jon Hamm

“My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.”

— William Sanderson

“It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?”

— William Lucking

“I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.”

— Jackson Rathbone

“I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.”

— Andrea Bocelli

“When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!”

— Andrea Bocelli

“I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.”

— Pierce Brosnan

“I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.”

— Steven Spielberg

“I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

“I wish we had horses to ride," Maria said. "In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“If wishes were horses, beggers would ride”

— Joanne Harris

“Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners”

— Jeffrey Rowland

“Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.”

— Genghis Khan

“I like horses. My grandfather had a horse named Whiskey and I got to ride it all the time. They are terrifying and beautiful. If there's a beast taking you to heaven or hell it probably looks something like a horse.”

— Shane Warren Jones

“If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.”

— Mark Twain

“Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.”

— Buck Brannaman

“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.”

— Lionel Trilling

“Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!”

— William Shakespeare