Rocking Horses Quotes:

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Horse, Moving, Positivity, Progress In Life, Progress And Change

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

- John Keats

source: 'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 186

topic: Horse, Poetry, Pegasus, Rocking Horses

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.86

topic: Horse, Children, Hands, Many Hands, World Is Small

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

- Diane Lane

topic: Horse, Drawing, Age, Painting And Drawing, Rocking Horses

A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Horse, Wall, Doors, Staircases, Overlapping

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

- John Ashbery

source: John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Trust, Horse, Disappointment, Rocking Horses

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Horse, Thinking, Race, Flippant, Sitting Still

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

- Jean Kerr

topic: Horse, Way, Toys, Rocking Horses