Cows Quotes - Page 14

• Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Real, Vegetables, Healthy

  "The ‘Real Milk’ Campaign Hopes To Make Real Suckers Out Of Us" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

  Martina McBride

  Thinking, Skills, May

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  Imran Khan

  Self, Tree, Wheat

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Acting, Actors

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• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Children, Boys, Sheep

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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• When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

  Noel Gallagher

  Cheer, Eggs, People

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• The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Horse, Sometimes

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• We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Dog, Horse, Home

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously...I'm Kidding”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

  Bill Bryson

  Riding, Fields, Tractors

  "How clean is my valley?". Interview with Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2007.

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• ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

  Homer

  Men, Sheep, Blood

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.355, Macmillan

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• It's like hunting cows

  Jon Stewart

  Hunting

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• Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

  Libba Bray

  Boards, Marigolds

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• They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.

  Jim Butcher

  I Like You, Laughter, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

  Tom Robbins

  Science, Animal, Past

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.127, Bantam

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• When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Helping, Butchers, Slaughter

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.224, Macmillan

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• Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others with a single growl. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Looks, Irs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

  Rick Riordan

  Red, Sun, Apollo

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• Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

  Lady Gaga

  Burgers

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Mar 12, 2010

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• If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Turkeys, Pigs

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• Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

  Dean Koontz

  Evening, Odd Thomas

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2013

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• It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate them. And that is what poetry or painting or literature or filmmaking is all about... and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Would Be, Literature

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• Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

  Nora Roberts

  Goodbye, Kissing, Boys

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Fall of Shane MacKade: The MacKade Brothers, Book Four”, p.102, Silhouette

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people." She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?" "Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stupid, Kissing

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

  Rick Riordan

  Dumb, Apollo, Red

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