Cows Quotes - Page 19

• More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

  Toni Morrison

  Dark, Night, Bird

  Toni Morrison (2010). “A Mercy”, p.3, Random House

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• Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Tough Times, African American

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• When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.

  Alison Lurie

  Animal, Doctors, People

  Alison Lurie (2010). “The Last Resort”, p.48, Random House

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• I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Pigs, Pet, Grew Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

  Yajnavalkya

  People, Atheism, Meat

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• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Pun

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• Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it

  Andrew Leigh

  Inspiration, Milk, Charging

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937”

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• Kayla Robinson, if you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!

  P. C. Cast

  Cheating, Stupid, Blood

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• Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

  Gelett Burgess

  Sorry, Writing, Purple

  "Confessional" l. 1 (1914) See Gelett Burgess 1

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• As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Eight, Heaven

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.63, Delacorte Press

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• Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a flower is ready to scatter its seed, it pollinates. It's the same way throughout nature - except with man, who tries to postpone consummation of his sex drive, unsuccessfully for the most part, for six or eight years after he reaches puberty.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Flower, Men

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• [My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Father, Men, Land

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God

  Martin Luther

  Milk, Glory, Glory Of God

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• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reality, Pliers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

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• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eggs, Meat, Care

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• 1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.

  Howard Lyman

  Morning, Night, Europe

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• Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

  Dick Gregory

  Car, Filters, Body

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• Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Horse, Hate, Sacrifice

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• The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Philosophy, Sacred, Should

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• A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Flower, Ideas, Heaven

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• I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.

  Harland Williams

  Sex, Jumping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.

  Darrel Ray

  Eggs, Drunk, Brain

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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