#horse

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#angry #any #awful #child #children

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#courageous #decided #done #equal #greek

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#book writing #business #horse #horse racing #like

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#baseball #beat #because #betting #gambling

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#against #became #black #broken #came

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#church #dad #enough #funny #getting

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? ↗

— John Millington Synge

#horses #only #price #son #thousand

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#become #before #continued #described #exhausted

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them. ↗

— Gabriel Heatter

#horse #like #only #only time #people

My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at Chester, which is also special, and she's just the apple of our eyes, really. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#apple #eight #ever #eyes #first