Horses quotes

“Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.”
Michael Mann

“There are at least a dozen good brood mares in that mob. I'll be back for them... and for whatever else is mine.”
Tom Burlinson - Jim Craig

The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at five in the morning. Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him. As if to say: "What the hell are you looking at? Who do you think you are?”. He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he... (continue)(continue reading)
David Gaub McCullough - Narrator

“You know, everybody thinks we found this broken-down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way we kinda fixed each other too.”
Tobey Maguire - Red Pollard

“A man without a horse is like a man without legs.”
Tommy Dysart - Mountain Man

“Good places make good horses.”
Alan Cumming - Black Beauty

“It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them.”
William Lucking

“More than three thousand years ago a man named Job complained to God about all his troubles and the Bible tells us that God answered. Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paused fiercely, rejoicing in his strength and charges...” (continue)(continue reading)
Diane Lane - Penny Chenery

“Jo knew I that I could feel love, and sadness. But others thought it was OK to just throw a horse’s life away like it meant nothing. And that broke my heart.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“Jo and I galloped like nothing in the world could catch us. We were two being, and yet, for just a moment, we were one.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“I was a mustang. Strong and proud and wild. And I would defend myself until my final breath. Jo would have wanted it. My mother would have too.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“A wise horse once told me that a mustang spirit can never be broken. That it has the strength of the ocean, and lives forever, like the wind.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“I decided humans must be very lazy. They always wanted to be carried around by something.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“After that day I realized that maybe there was one person who could understand me. And the amazing thing was, I understood her too.”
Kate Winslet - Black Beauty

“- Brad: They gotta stop sometime. If they're human men at all, they gotta stop.
- Ethan: No, a human rides a horse until it dies, then he goes on afoot. A Comanche comes along, gets that horse up, rides him 20 more miles... and then he eats him.”
Harry Carey Jr. - Brad Jorgensen
John Wayne - Ethan Edwards

“- Sheriff Burnett: What do you want?
- Walter, Leader of the Outlaws: We just want that horse of yours.
- Sheriff Burnett: You want my horse, there's an awful lot of ya. What are you gonna do with just one horse, anyhow?
- Walter, Leader of the Outlaws: Eat it. We're gonna feed off that beast for at least a week.”
Frank Wolff - Sheriff Gideon Burnett
Spartaco Conversi - Walter

“- Rachel Crowhurst: Are there horses in the Horse Latitudes?
- Donald Crowhurst: No, sweetheart. Story has it that many years ago when the Spanish sailed to the West Indies they brought their horses with them, and sometimes they ran out of wind and then they ran out of fresh water as well.”
Eleanor Stagg - Rachel Crowhurst
Colin Firth - Donald Crowhurst

“- Tommy aka White Knife: I'm in a bit of a bind, boys. I rode all the way out here to pan for gold and my horse up and died on me.
- Rifleman: How'd he die?
- Tommy aka White Knife: Suicide. Drowned himself. Put his head in the stream and just kept it there. Saddest thing you ever seen.”
Adam Sandler - Tommy
Jonathan Loughran - Rifleman

“- Annie MacLean: I've heard you help people with horse problems.
- Tom Booker: Truth is, I help horses with people problems.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Annie MacLean
Robert Redford - Tom Booker

- Tulio: Miguel, you're talking to a horse!
- Miguel: Yes, that's it Altivo. Find the pry bar!
- Tulio: Yes, "find the pry bar". He doesn't understand "pry bar"! He's a dumb horse, there's no way he could understand.
Kevin Kline - Tulio
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Miguel

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Isn't water polo terribly dangerous?
- Junior: I'll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Junior

“One day I woke up and found myself alone. Seemed like everybody I knew was either dead or in jail. They thought I was dead too. So I just did what any good dead person would do; I went off and raised me some horses. Twenty years.”
Sam Shepard - James

“Years ago, I saved up a million bucks from acting — a lot of money back then — and I spent it all on a ranch outside Tucson. Now when I go down there, I look at the place and I realize my whole acting career adds up to a million bucks' worth of horse shit.”
Robert Mitchum

“Let me put it this way. My horse is definitely not my best friend.”
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“I never stole a horse from someone I didn't like.”
Emilio Estevez - William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney