Butchers Quotes - Page 3

• I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

  Loretta Lynn

  Thinking, Usa, Sound

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.1, Vintage

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  Homer

  Gun, Knives, Tools

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• Freedom is like a man who kills himself
  Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
  Grows sharp in blood.

  Wallace Stevens

  Suicide, Freedom, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.292, Vintage

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• well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

  Charles Bukowski

  Sky, Pimp, Cab Drivers

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• Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Struggle, Cat, Stories

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• Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Warfare, World

  Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, December 22, 1802.

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• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  Gary Ackerman

  Thinking, Perspective, Important

  "Code Pink Targets Congressman Gary Ackerman's Boat". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Boys, Soldier, Risk

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.

  Lewis Mumford

  Animal, Games, People

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• You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Knights, Order

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• Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

  John Aubrey

  Father, Exercise, Boys

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• I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.

  Stella Vine

  Running, School, Son

  "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

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• I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald

  Natalie

  Heart, Giving, Barbie

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• When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cows, Helping, Slaughter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.224, Macmillan

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• My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Father, Home, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.

  Ramzi Yousef

  Liars, Hypocrite, Government

  "Excerpts From Statements in Court". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 1998.

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• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Men, Mcdonalds

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Fantasy Lover”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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• The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Doors, Knives

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
  Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
  Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Tumbling Down

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.246

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to “give me this day my daily bread.”

  Gene Veith

  Men, Giving, Bread

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• When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Sex, Clothes, Blue

  Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

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