The document contains 18 quotes about horses that highlight their beauty, strength, and importance throughout human history. The quotes describe horses as noble, graceful animals that provide escape and companionship. They have accompanied humans on our path to freedom and civilization. Riding a horse allows one to soar like a hawk and feel a connection to the natural world.

1. 4/25/2009 1 To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown

2. 4/25/2009 2 Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,Friendship without envy,Or beauty without vanity?Here, where grace is served with muscleAnd strength by gentleness confinedHe 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

3. 4/25/2009 3 ...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)

4. 4/25/2009 4 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

5. 4/25/2009 5 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

6. 4/25/2009 6 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

7. 4/25/2009 7 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

8. 4/25/2009 8 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 V

9. 4/25/2009 9 A Dog looks up to a man, a cat looks down on a man, but a patient horse looks a man in the eye and sees him as an equal.

10. 4/25/2009 10 A horse is like a best friend. They`re always there to nuzzle you and make your life a better place.

11. 4/25/2009 11 A horse doesn't care how much you know until he knows how much you care. - Pat Parelli

12. 4/25/2009 12 Look back at our struggle for freedom,Trace our present day's strength to it's source;And you'll find that man's pathway to gloryIs strewn with the bones of the horse.~Author Unknown

13. 4/25/2009 13 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

14. 4/25/2009 14 Give me food and drink; and care for me. And when the day's work is done, shelter me. Give me a clean bed and leave me not too small a place in the stable. Talk to me, for your voice often takes the place of reins. Be good to me and I shall serve you more gladly and love you.

15. 4/25/2009 15 A good rider can hear his horse speak to him, a great rider can hear his horse whisper, but a bad rider won't hear his horse even if it screams at him.

16. 4/25/2009 16 I have seen things so beautiful, that they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet, none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.

17. 4/25/2009 17 Horse... if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.

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19. 4/25/2009 19 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 Trinity Nov 2009