The Stables

"We really care for our animals," the Queen says. "The animals in AeaTr are sometimes as smart as we are."

Her falcon squaks.

"I rest my case," she smiles. "A friend of mine care for the horses very well. She loves them to death. She collects things about horses, including quotes."

"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves-- strong, powerful, beautiful--and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existance."

--Pam Brown

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."

--Sir Winston Churchill

"The sight of that pony did something to 'em I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty in motion. He set me dreaming."

--Walt Morey

"In riding a horse, we borrow freedom."

--Helen Thomson

"A canter is a cure for every evil."

--Benjamin Disraeli

"The air of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ear."

--Arabian proverb

"God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses."

--R.B. Cunningham-Graham

"A horse is worth more than riches."

--Spanish proverb

"The horse is God's gift to mankind."

--Arabian proverb

"Riding turns I wish into I can."

--Pam Brown

"A good horse and a good rider are only so in mutual trust."

--H.M.E.

"That hoss wasn't built to tread the earth; he took natural to the air and every time he went aloft he tried to leave me there."

--anonymous

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

--Ian Fleming

"I prefer a bike to a horse; the brakes are more easily checked."

--Lambert Jeffries