Cows Quotes - Page 11

• Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Needs, Whiskey, Economy

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Government, Dying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Running, Blow, Epidemics

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

  Michael Faraday

  Horse, Men, Twenties

  Michael Faraday, Hermann L. F. Von Helmholtz (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

  Jane Smiley

  Life, Men, Mind

  Jane Smiley (2017). “The Greenlanders”, p.487, Pan Macmillan

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• I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.245

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• The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

  E. B. White

  Needs, Use, Path

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Yield, People

  1763 Of sceptics. Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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• A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.

  Jake Johannsen

  Funny, Tone, Psychotic

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• I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Memories, Home, Childhood

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

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• I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

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• Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Would Be, Want

  "Burden of Dreams". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

  Werner Herzog

  Would Be, Fields

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

  Werner Herzog

  Actors, Milk, Difficult

  "Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D!" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. April 29, 2011.

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• When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Home, Years, Skins

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• It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

  Mel Smith

  Sweet, Comedy, Good Intentions

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• In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.

  Spike Milligan

  Wife, India, Caught In The Act

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• It's gross. We use real brains - I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Real, Thinking, Eggs

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". Playboy Interview, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 7, 2006.

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• I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

  Jason Behr

  Cities, People, Colorado

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• Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Writing, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Miracle, Bits, Asks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.99, Random House Books for Young Readers

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

  Gary Yourofsky

  Glasses, Milk, Calves

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• Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Live Life, Thinking, Animal

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• What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Pigs, Rabbits, Monkeys

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• All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Men

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