If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.
Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells. - Monica Dickens
Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.
- Monica Dickens
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfi… - Monica Dickens
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfi…
Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables. - Monica Dickens
Dog lovers hate to clean out kennels. Horse lovers like cleaning stables.
Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me. - Monica Dickens
Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.
You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of y… - Monica Dickens
You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of y…
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease. - Monica Dickens
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.
We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength. - Monica Dickens
We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like … - Monica Dickens
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like …
No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them. - Monica Dickens
No ride is ever the last one. No horse is ever the last one you will have. Somehow there will always be other horses, other places to ride them.
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