Cows Quotes - Page 25

• A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

  George Herbert

  Children, Rich, Dies

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Children, Cat

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

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• Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Animal, Expression, Talking

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• Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

  Charles Clover

  Change, Animal, Buffalo

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• . . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

  Mao Zedong

  Likes, Dogma, Revisionism

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• I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

  Dave Matthews

  Stupid, Moving, Want

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

  Ian Holloway

  Journey, Car, Miles

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• Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Protection, Mere

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• I hate sandwiches at New York delis. Too much meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "Would you like anything else with the pastrami sandwich?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, New York, Hate

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• Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Running, Fear, Brave

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!

  Karlie Kloss

  Years, Week, Holy

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• The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.

  Martin Luther

  Milk, Vocation

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• Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

  Elbert Hubbard

  Politician, Regard

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  "For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

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• There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
  practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Three, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

  Chasey Lain

  Dancing, Clubs, Pay

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

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• Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Eggs

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• Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Sacred, Matter

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• Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Skeletons, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.123, Orient Paperbacks

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• If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Brother, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.41, Rajpal & Sons

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