415 Quotes About Horses

  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    There are strong similarities in the way horses and those with autism see the world. Horses are often born into an environment they don't understand, with overwhelming sights, sounds, and smells, and a sense that no one understands them. And when they see someone with autism, who has much the same background, and who knows them, and knows what they need - there is a connection. Since the two share the same experiences, they both relax, and seem to talk and understand each other.

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  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    Mom, why do I find myself trying to be nice to that awful girl Rachel, who has been nasty to me every time I've seen her?""Maybe you've spent so much time with horses you've picked up their habits. You know---like how they sense things in people....Keep following your instincts. You can't go wrong being kind to people, even if they are unkind people themselves.

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  • Author Louise Erdrich
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    She was a horse lover and she and Whitey kept a mean old paint, a fancy quarter horse/Arabian mix, a roan Appaloosa with one ghost eye named Spook, and a pony. So along with the whiskey and perfume and smoke, she often exuded faint undertones of hay, dust, and the fragrance of horse, which once you smell it you always miss it. Humans were meant to live with the horse.

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  • Author Gordon Merrick
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    Peter laughed. “Still worried somebody’ll get ideas? Listen, champ, New York is teeming with faggots. One more or less won’t frighten the horses.

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  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    Sadie had been taking lessons for over a year, and she still learned something each and every time she rode.

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  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    That's amazing," Dad said, still watching the two horses interact so comfortably after not seeing each other for so long. Chance stomped and squealed, and Thor bit his neck. "Ouch." "Oh, that's their way of getting to know each other again. Have to re-establish who's in charge." Sadie saw mom and dad exchange looks.

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  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    There's a very interesting dynamic with horses and couples. With couples, the horses react most dramatically. It is amazing how they pick up on underlying tension or other issues that couples themselves don't see.

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  • Author Valerie Ormond
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    First, no other animals have the same mirroring effect as horses, meaning they will mirror humans' emotions. Second, they are not judgmental or biased. And third, they live within a social structure, heir herds, much the same as we do.

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  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    There's a way to train a horse where when you get done you've got the horse. On his own ground. A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what's in his heart. He wont do one thing while you're watching him and another when you aint. He's all of a piece. When you've got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do somethin he knows is wrong. He'll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart.

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