Calves Quotes

• I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Meat Eating

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• For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

  Steve King

  Memorable, Marijuana, People

  "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

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• A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Ballet, Good Education

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• Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Amputation, Majesty, King Of Attolia

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• As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Wisdom, Men

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• Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Glasses, Cows, Milk

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• My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.

  Rynn Berry

  Glasses, Vegetarianism, Essence

  "The Vegan Sourcebook". Book by Joanne Stepaniak (p. 40), 1998.

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• The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

  Helen Weston

  Taken, Animal, Sound

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• When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Heart, Ideas, Sunrise

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Marriage, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Scrolls" (1975) See Bible 167

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• Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Butchers, Stupidest

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• If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

  Dan Piraro

  Drinking, Cows, Milk

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• I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

  David Ginola

  Weekend, Climbing, Safety

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• Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off the small pony he was riding and thudded heavily to the turf on the point of his shoulder, the shoulder would hurt too. He concentrated on trying to find one part of his body that wasn't a giant source of pain and failed miserably. He opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was the face of the elderly pony that he had been riding peered down at him. Now what made you do a strange thing like that? The creature seemed to be asking.

  John Flanagan

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.83, Random House

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• One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Home, Men, Boston

  Sam Walter Foss, “The Calf-Path”

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• The worst scream I have ever heard, by far, is a mother cow on a dairy farm screaming her lungs out day, after day, after day for her stolen baby to be given back to her. And why do they steal babies from their moms? Well, the dairy industry can't have little babies sucking up all that milk that was meant for them. Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

  William Tyndale

  Blood, Law, People

  William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.364

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• The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Sheep, Lambs, Cows

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• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  White, House, Littles

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Business, Men

  Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"

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• The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If a child succeeds, he or she will receive a certificate to purchase a breeding animal to raise and bring back to the livestock show next year.

  Kim Carnes

  Children, Animal, Years

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• A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Men, Boston, Years

  Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”

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• Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. Their milk contains blood, pus, tranquilizers, antibiotics, and an insulin growth factor that can cause a fourfold increase in prostate cancer and sevenfold rise in breast cancer. This is the milk used in our school lunch programs and served to our children. This is the milk that you buy every day. This is the milk used in all cheeses, yogurts, butter, and cream.

  Kevin Trudeau

  Children, Pain, Cancer

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• Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

  Thomas Hood

  Sheep, Gone, Half

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

  Ree Drummond

  Children, Nuts, Jeans

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