Cows Quotes - Page 22

• In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Studios

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• What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

  Queen Victoria

  Dog, Pride, Animal

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• Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

  Derek Jarman

  Yellow, Made, Banned

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• We don't have mad cow disease. We probably never will have mad cow disease, and therefore, it's a non-problem in the United States.

  Paul Brown

  Mad Cow Disease, United States, Problem

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• Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Looks, Matter

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• Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

  Lewis Mumford

  Quality, Essentials, Passionate

  Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (2008). “Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.

  Andy Rooney

  Animal, Thinking, Years

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• Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cooking, Beef

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.346, Canongate Books

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• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Missing, Hot

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• We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

  Phil Robertson

  Running, Fall, Kids

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• A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

  Michael Pollan

  Looks, World, Corn

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fun, Self, Play

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• I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tree, Drug, Arguing

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the cow is in California, instead of putting the cow down, they are going to enroll him in anger management classes.

  Jay Leno

  Class, California, Mad Cow Disease

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• I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

  Djuna Barnes

  Humble, Wind, Violet

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.

  John Constable

  Summer, Morning, Horse

  "Constable". Book by Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Tate Gallery Publications, London, p. 380, Letter to William Purton (6 February 1836), 1993.

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• When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

  Tony Abbott

  Average, Challenges, Use

  "Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 27, 2009.

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• If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

  Merlin Mann

  Want, Break, Chili

  "Roderick On The Line" podcast, 5by5 Studios, October 2011.

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• I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

  Carre Otis

  Vegetarianism, Bars, Sushi

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• Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

  Gene Spafford

  Wish, Sacred, Eras

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• We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

  George Lakoff

  Constructive, Knows

  George Lakoff (2008). “Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things”, p.381, University of Chicago Press

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• "You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

  George Ohsawa

  Life Is Good, Herbs, Milk

  "Atomic Age - And the Philosophy of the Far East". Book by George Ohsawa, p. 53, 1977.

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• Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

  Langdon Winner

  Dollars, Actors, Film

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Lightning

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