Bovine Quotes

• History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Used, Pastures, Wells

  "The Price of the Head". "Instauration" Magazine, March 1980.

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• The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

  Ogden Nash

  Animal, Cows, Milk

  'The Cow' (1931)

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• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Heart, Happy Life, Interesting

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine

  Libba Bray

  Real, Self, Trying

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, 2009.

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• The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

  Libba Bray

  Dark, Light, Doe

  "Going Bovine". Book by Libba Bray, 2009.

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• These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Hard Times, Appreciate

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Travel, Stronger, Agoraphobia

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Ecosystems, Growth Hormones

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

  Julie Burchill

  Stupid, Vote, Labour

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• All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Honesty, Pain, Voice

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

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• The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.

  Mary Karr

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

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• The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

  Brian Swimme

  Degrees, Tension, Humans

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• I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.

  Christopher Paolini

  Healthy, Insulting, Would Be

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1597, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Past, People, Comprehension

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

  Mark Steyn

  Flatulence, Taxes, Emissions

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.115, Regnery Publishing

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• One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.

  Alison Stewart

  Baby, Cancer, Confused

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• What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago – that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say – bovine spongiform encephalopathy – are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'

  Joel Salatin

  Wall, Latin, Years

  "Interview: Joel Salatin" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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