Cows Quotes - Page 29

• I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Order, Jail

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Names, Giving, Example

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• It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

  Tom Upton

  School, Easy, Caught

  Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.33, Tom Upton

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• I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

  Noel Coward

  Country, Horse, Want

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.208, A&C Black

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• Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Horse, Fun, Race

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Use

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Bed, Culture

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, Wish

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• There was a little element of feeling like a cow.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Feelings, Elements, Littles

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• Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, 'cause it's leaving the pasture.

  Jimmy McGill

  Past, Bye, Leaving

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• We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
  men who eat hamburgers!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

  Aldo Leopold

  Jobs, Winter, Night

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

  Curtis Jackson

  Circles, People, Different

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• By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Winning, Able, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

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• Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Preservation, Articles

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• The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, Way

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

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• It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Matter

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Grass, Grain

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.124, Rajpal & Sons

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• I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

  Adam Rapp

  Drinking, Years, Milk

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.

  Brian Henson

  Pigs, Puppets, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don’t have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.180, Macmillan

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• To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.

  Philip Kapleau

  Buddhist, Animal, Sheep

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Autumn, Awful

  "The Autumn of the Patriarch". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 1975.

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