Allen Tate Quotes

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Horse is fine. I'll ride a horse.

I'm an equestrian, so I like to ride. Ride horses, I love to hike with my dog, love to travel. Most recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved.

Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

Horses have made civilization possible.

I love horses so much. Horses are my life.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

A young trooper should have an old horse.