Hog Quotes - Page 3

• America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Artist, America

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

  Richard Carlson

  People, Needs, Attention

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

  Glenn Miller

  Successful, Color, Creating

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• A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cousin, Flower, Grandmother

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• Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

  Jim Hightower

  Water, Creeks, Clear

  Bill Moyers Journal, April 30, 2010.

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• If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

  Will Cuppy

  Play, Snakes, Clubs

  "The Hog-Nosed Snake". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

  Malcolm X

  House, Ems, Fields

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• A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

  D. W Brogan

  Country, Japan, Roots

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• We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

  Will Rogers

  Peculiar, Welfare

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• The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  People, Soul, Atheism

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.57

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• Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Team, Winning, Balls

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• Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

  Carolyn Jones

  Funny, Basketball, Coffee

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• Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies.

  Evan Esar

  Community, Helping, Dies

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• Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, United States, Global Warming

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• In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, New York, Book

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

  Daughn Gibson

  Kids, Drug, Safe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.

  Ralph Stanley

  Mother, Real, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I hadn't talked to him in many, many years. He got a bad rap on "Heaven's Gate." I actually live in the hog ranch from "Heaven's Gate" in Montana. Mike Cimino gave me that set, the whorehouse, that's my house.

  Jeff Bridges

  Rap, Years, House

  Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.

  Jay Michaelson

  Lying, Doubt, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Horse, Gun, Nuts

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• People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.

  Davis Schneiderman

  Home, Character, Kids

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

  Molly Ivins

  Pigs, Fats

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• I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Horse, Men, Dead Man

  Rudyard Kipling (2005). “Captains Courageous”, p.125, Penguin

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