Hunters Quotes

• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Health, Vegetarianism, Safety

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• I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

  Eva Longoria

  Moving, Watches, Want

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• I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Men, Pockets, Firsts

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.44, Rutgers University Press

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• Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

  Ed McBain

  Style, Different, Matter

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• Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Home, Different

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• It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Process, Farmers

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Music, Sports, Hunting

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1972)

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• Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

  John L. Lewis

  Dog, Winning, Judging

  Life magazine, October 25, 1954.

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• Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

  Ralph Steadman

  Giving, Way, Journalistic

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• All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Wall, Home

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Hunting, Animal

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Ideas, Long

  News Conference, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Film, Fisherman

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• Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Next, Photographer

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• Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

  Henry Williamson

  Otters, Long, Water

  Henry Williamson (1960). “The Henry Williamson animal saga”, Macdonald and Jane's

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Mother, Jobs, Wall

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• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  Jerry Garcia

  Nice, Writing, Stuff

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• Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Conservation, Crocs, Crocodiles

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• Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

  Gale Norton

  Hunting, America, Dating

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  Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

  Anne Tyler

  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, People, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

  George Eads

  Children, Fighting, Hands

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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