Cattle Quotes - Page 10

• I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

  Reba McEntire

  Cowboy, Oklahoma, Way

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• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Football, Teacher, School

  "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!

  Paul Simon

  Angel, Men, Sound

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Different, Stories

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jun 28, 2010

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• Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

  Jason Lee

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Latin, Reality, Bonus

  Stephen Jay Gould (2002). “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”, p.1070, Harvard University Press

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• Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

  Frank R. Stockton

  Silly, People, Together

  Frank R. Stockton (1906). “THE QUEEN'S MUSEUM AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES”

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• We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, People, Grandfather

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