The Black Stallion Quotes

“I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“Arabia—where the greatest horses in the world were bred!”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“Its hold was loaded with coffee, rice, tea, oil seeds and jute. Black smoke poured from its one stack, darkening the hot cloudless sky. Alexander”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures—a stallion born wild—and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“Alexander Ramsay, known to his friends back home in New York City as Alec,”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary--but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“skeptical,”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“over into the Black’s stall to steal some of his oats. The Black”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“Rock of Gibraltar”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

“Alexandria,”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion