Horse Symbolism Quotes

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

A horse is wonderful by definition.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.