Cattle Quotes - Page 9

• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, America, What If

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• [My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

  Johnny Cash

  Father, Inspiration, Painting

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

  Len Goodman

  Hate, Airports, Should Have

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• The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

  Henry George

  Wisdom, Men, Numbers

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Meals, Body

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In India, crossbreeding programs aimed at mimicking the milk yields of Western cows like the Jerseys and the Holsteins actually breed out the capacity of our animals to pull ploughs and pulley-cars. So, thanks to cross-breeding programs, we now have humpless cattle with no stamina.

  Vandana Shiva

  Animal, Yield, Car

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

  James T. Shotwell

  Spiritual, Sheep, Rocks

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• The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Hands, Literature

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• Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Moving, Writing, Fields

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.125

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• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hobbies, Barns, Strange Person

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

  Al Yankovic

  Musical, Albums, Band

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• I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.

  Umar

  Running, Men, Trying

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• The weary August days are long;
  The locusts sing a plaintive song,
  The cattle miss their master's call
  When they see the sunset shadows fall.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Summer, Song, Fall

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47

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• Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

  Ovid

  Milk, Crops, Produce

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• Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

  John Dryden

  Kind, Imitation, Imitator

  Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Dryden, Alexander Pope (1783). “The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy”, p.166

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• When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

  James Hilton

  Moving, Book, Years

  James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”

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• Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

  Jason Lee

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Children, Air

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Distance, Thinking

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• I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

  Reba McEntire

  Cowboy, Oklahoma, Way

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