Moose Quotes

• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

  Woody Allen

  Summer, June, Tree

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

  Bill Bryson

  Nature, Years, Hunters

  1998 Notes from a Big Country.

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• A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

  Groucho Marx

  Wall, Inspiration, Animal

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• I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Use, Bulls

  Letter to Mark Hanna, 17 June 1900. Roosevelt had used the expression "I feel as strong as a bull-moose" in an earlier letter of 29 Oct. 1895.

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• The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, Awkward, Tails

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.68, Trajectory Inc

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  School, Alaska, Mountain

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• I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

  Eden Robinson

  Flower, Romance, Fishes

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Rip, Home, Cutting

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• That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi.

  Mikey Way

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• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Kissing, Lips

  "Joan Rivers' Most Memorable Insults" by Hilary Lewis and Colin Stutz, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 04, 2014.

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• Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

  Tao Lin

  Aliens, Sometimes, Solidarity

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• Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

  Tom Bodett

  Growing Up, Kids, Alaska

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• I feel as fit as a bull moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Bulls, Fit

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• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Country, Animal

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• I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

  Don Kardong

  Disease, Tick, Ill

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• You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

  Jim Butcher

  Diseased

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1872, Penguin

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• Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Girl, Kissing, Stronger

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• I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Eye, Glasses

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1317, Penguin

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• A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?

  Pat Paulsen

  Gun, Spots, Streets

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Badass, Bad Ass, Gentleman

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• Hey, moose!” I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we’ll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Animal, Glowing

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• The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Eagles, President

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• I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.

  Kiera Cass

  Effort, Grace, Rooms

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