Today I woke with a wonderful sense of accomplishment that lasted throughout the day, but I did encounter moments when a bit of poignant times fell in-between the highs…nonetheless, the highlight...our house is officially for sale! We have finally reached the end of this road and it has been a long journey traveled to achieve this necessary step to move forward. We have had several setbacks and at times the trip was at a snail's pace, but with perseverance and dedication, placing one foot in front of the other we made it. Looking at the past, it has truly been a wonderful home for my family and for the future the magnificent memories go with us and will remain in our hearts and thoughts always. Who knows how long it will take to sell, but we are ready to turn down the subsequent road and take on our next journey - a new city, a new life - our home in the country with the horses.
Today is an important day - at times there were tears of sadness when reflecting on the past while others were filled with the excitement of the future. Our past has carried us to this moment and all the experiences on the journey have left impressions. We take all of them with us when we go and truly look forward to the future with jubilation. A lifelong dream is about to become reality, having our horses with us on our farm. Our horses are not aware of what lies ahead, but we know a sturdy foundation has been laid to construct a strong future. We have continued to build our partnerships with our horses throughout this transition and every day we recognize the connections becoming stronger. Today, is my two-year anniversary with Tsar and I took time to reminisce on how far we have come together – I have done a lot of recalling to the past lately. It is amazing to realize our achievements and the terrific memories we share. We are about to embark down another road in our fascinating journey with our horses and so we look forward to tomorrow’s growth from the learned knowledge of yesterday.
Over the years, I have collected many people’s words about horses. There is a variety; some may be familiar to you and others new. I dug fast and deep in our packed up belongings, keeping my horse material close at hand, to gather these sayings for my enjoyment recently and thought others may enjoy them too. With the emotions of these current times for us and the many changes we are about to endure in our lives, this blog comes forth after a minute to stop and reflect on the past, take a breath, and enjoy some down time. A long journey is winding down as well as the day; I take pleasure in putting together a nice short read, reflecting on the past and looking towards the future.
Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
~Job 39:19
A horse is poetry in motion.
~Author Unknown
The outside of a horse is good for the inside of man.
~Author Unknown
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
~Sharon Ralls Lemon
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
~Winston Churchill
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.
~Author Unknown
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
~Arabian Proverb
To ride a horse is to ride the sky.
~Author Unknown
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
~Robert Smith Surtees
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!
~Nicholas Evans
The horses paw and prance and neigh,
Fillies and colts like kittens play,
And dance and toss their rippled manes
Shining and soft as silken skeins; ...
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.
~Author Unknown
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
~William Shakespeare, Henry VI
She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.
~Jean M. Auel
The best horse doesn't always win the race.
~Irish proverb
Let us ride together, blowing mane and hair, careless of the weather, miles ahead of care, ring of hoof and snaffle, swing of waist and hip, trotting down the twisted road with the world let slip.
~Anonymous
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
~Xenophon
A Hibernian sage once wrote that there are three things a man never forgets: The girl of his early youth, a devoted teacher, and a great horse.
~C.J.J. Mullen
A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.
~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoof print of the horse beside it.
~John Moore
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.
~Veryl Goodnight
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
~Dale Carnegie
The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood.
~Johannes Jensen
Horses lend us the wings we lack.
~Author Unknown
The horse is God's gift to mankind.
~Arabian Proverb
If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.
~Pat Parelli
A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it.
~Author Unknown
What delight
To back the flying steed, that challenges
The wind for speed! - seems native more of air
Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! -
Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport;
Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now!
He takes away my breath! He makes me reel!
I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All
Is ecstasy of motion!
~James Sheridan Knowles, The Love-Chase
A thousand horse and none to ride! -
With flowing tail, and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscarred by spur or rod,
A thousand horse, the wild, the free,
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on,...
~Lord Byron, XVII, Mazeppa, 1818
Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.
~Author Unknown
If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.
~Author Unknown
To these animals, the ability to intuit fear in a distant herd member and act on this feeling without hesitation is a lifesaving skill. Their innate aptitude for resonating with another being's trust, joy, or confidence is a life enhancing skill.
~Linda Kohanov
My horse's feet are as swift as rolling thunder
He carries me away from all my fears
And when the world threatens to fall asunder
His mane is there to wipe away my tears.
~Bonnie Lewis
A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history.
~Author Unknown
A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.
~James Rarey
The horse. Here is nobility without conceit, friendship without envy, beauty without vanity. A willing servant, yet never a slave.
~Ronald Duncan
Horses Leave Hoof Prints On Our Hearts.
~Author Unknown
No hoof, no horse.
Old wise, horse saying, horse proverb.
No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
~C.S. Lewis
A man, a horse and a dog never get weary of each other's company."
~Anonymous
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb".
~Will Rogers
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
~Sir Winston Churchill
If you climb in the saddle, be ready for the ride.
~Anonymous
The horse stopped with a jerk and the jerk fell off!
~Anonymous
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
~Anonymous
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
~Daniel Boone
Look back on our struggle for freedom,
Trace our present day's strength to its source;
And you'll find that man's pathway to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse.
~Anonymous
A horse gallops with his lung
Perseveres with his heart,
and wins with his character
~Tesio
"My horses are my friends... not my slaves!"
~Dr. Reiner Klimke
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
~William Shakespeare
Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him
~Jelaluddin Rumi
One who believes that he has mastered the art of horsemanship has not yet begun to understand the horse.
~Author Unknown
The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.
~Yiddish Proverb
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.
~Author Unknown
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!
~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
~Gerald Raferty
I bless the hoss from hoof to head -
From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -
I bless the hoss, as I have said,
From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
~Beryl Markham
...I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Chimæra," A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, 1852 (about Pegasus)
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
Among all the sights of the docks, the noble truck-horses are not the least striking to a stranger. They are large and powerful brutes, with such sleek and glossy coats, that they look as if brushed and put on by a valet every morning. They march with a slow and stately step, lifting their ponderous hoofs like royal Siam elephants. Thou shalt not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens; for their docility is such, they are guided without rein or lash; they go or come, halt or march on, at a whisper. So grave, dignified, gentlemanly, and courteous did these fine truck-horses look - so full of calm intelligence and sagacity, that often I endeavored to get into conversation with them, as they stood in contemplative attitudes while their loads were preparing. But all I could get from them was the mere recognition of a friendly neigh; though I would stake much upon it that, could I have spoken in their language, I would have derived from them a good deal of valuable information touching the docks, where they passed the whole of their dignified lives.
~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
To understand the soul of a horse is the closest human beings can come to knowing perfection.
~Author Unknown
A horse is worth more than riches.
~Spanish Proverb
There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.
~Author Unknown
Feeling down? Saddle up.
~Author Unknown
Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking.
~Author Unknown
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~Anonymous
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.
~Pam Brown
Somewhere in time's own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.
~Stanley Harrison
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
~William Shakespeare, Henry V
Let a horse whisper in your ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it.
~Author Unknown
And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.
~Bedouin Legend
The hooves of horses!
Oh! witching and sweet
Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;
No whisper of lover, no trilling of bird,
Can stir me as much as hooves of horses
Have stirred.
~Will H. Ogilvie
The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.
~Samantha Armstrong
For one to fly, one needs only to take the reins.
~Author Unknown
A good rider can hear his horse speak to him. A great rider can hear his horse whisper.
~Author Unknown
Why did this animal that had prospered so in the Colorado desert leave his amiable homeland for Siberia? There is no answer. We know that when the horse negotiated the land bridge... he found on the other end an opportunity for varied development that is one of the bright aspects of animal history. He wandered into France and became the mighty Percheron, and into Arabia, where he developed into a lovely poem of a horse, and into Africa where he became the brilliant zebra, and into Scotland, where he bred selectively to form the massive Clydesdale. He would also journey into Spain, where his very name would become the designation for gentleman, a caballero, a man of the horse. There he would flourish mightily and serve the armies that would conquer much of the known world.
~James Michener
O! for a horse with wings!
~William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
His mane is like a river flowing, and his eyes like embers glowing in the darkness of the night, and his pace as swift as light
~Bryan Waller Proctor, The Blood Horse
A hurry of hoofs in a village street, a shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, and beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark struck out from a steed flying fearless and fleet; that was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, the fate of a nation was riding that night.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning - the faithful horse has been with us always.
~Elizabeth Cotton
Bread may feed my body, but my horse feeds my soul.
~Author Unknown
I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
~Author Unknown
All horses deserve, at least once in their lives, to be loved by a little girl.
~Author Unknown
When your horse follows you without being asked, when he rubs his head on yours, and when you look at him and feel a tingle down your spine...you know you are loved.
~John Lyons
The way to heaven is on horseback.
~Author Unknown
Virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock. I have given thee the power of flight without wings.
~The Koran
A true horseman does not look at the horse with his eyes, he looks at his horse with his heart.
~Author Unknown
A large and liquid eye...the swirl of dust around pounding hooves...these, then, are the images that move us.
~Author Unknown
Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls. They give us hope!
~Toni Robinson
At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other. Each is the selfless guardian of the other's very well-being.
~Author Unknown
Ask me to show you poetry in motion and I will show you a horse.
~Author Unknown
You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
~Pam Brown
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
~Pam Brown
~Author Unknown
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
~Rebecca Carroll
No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't there to welcome me.
~Author Unknown
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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A horse does not care how much you know until you show him how much you care.
~Pat Parelli
Your horse is entertainment for you, but can you be entertainment for him.
~Pat Parelli
My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
~Author Unknown
A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.
~Author Unknown
If I had a horse, I'd ride off in the sunset, where dreams, and shadows lie. To a life, where pain and sorrow don't exist, and to where hopes, and dreams become reality.
~Author Unknown
In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.
~ Tuscan Proverb
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
~Abraham Lincoln
To ride or not to ride? What a stupid question!
~Author Unknown
Show me your horse, and I will tell you who you are.
~Author Unknown
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.
~Mexican Proverb
Horses change lives. They give our young people confidence and self esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls - they give us hope!
~Author Unkown
There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor and the other is patience.
~Author Unknown
Sell the cow, buy the sheep, but never be without the horse.
~Irish Proverb
I have seen things so beautiful they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet non of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
~Author Unknown
The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
~Arabian Proverb
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
~Robert Smith Surtees
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
~Alice Walker
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
~King James Bible
Your horse can only be as brave as you are.
~Author Unknown
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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go Green Tips:
- buy a refillable water bottle for yourself and encourage the same for anyone else around your barn / home
- recycle magazines by reusing them; contact senior, child care, schools or any other facility that could possibly use them and donate them
Any Go Green Ideas?
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