Cows Quotes - Page 23

• Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Protection, Mere

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

  Ian Holloway

  Journey, Car, Miles

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• It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

  George Orwell

  Successful, Eggs, Two

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Way, Should, Butchers

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.21, Scholastic UK

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Reflection, Views, Europe

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• I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.

  Patricia Briggs

  Thinking, Hands, Female

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.320, Penguin

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• I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

  Dave Matthews

  Stupid, Moving, Want

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• . . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

  Mao Zedong

  Likes, Dogma, Revisionism

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• "Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

  Scott Westerfeld

  Country, Rain, Cutting

  "Uglies". Book by Scott Westerfeld, 2005.

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• Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

  Charles Clover

  Change, Animal, Buffalo

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, Lovers, Asks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Cat, Bed

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• I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.

  John Constable

  Summer, Morning, Horse

  "Constable". Book by Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Tate Gallery Publications, London, p. 380, Letter to William Purton (6 February 1836), 1993.

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• I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

  Louise Rennison

  Stupid, Home, Snogging

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• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

  Marge Piercy

  Giving, Choices, Mind

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• The best part is coming." "What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?" "No. That's the finale.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Swallowing, Finale, Whole

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the cow is in California, instead of putting the cow down, they are going to enroll him in anger management classes.

  Jay Leno

  Class, California, Mad Cow Disease

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• Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

  Lauren Kate

  Sweet, Eye, Giving

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.51, Delacorte Press

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• But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.

  Marc Chagall

  Wise, Hands, White

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 34, 1991.

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• These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Book, Literature

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2010.

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• To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Children, People

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• People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

  Julia Peterkin

  Dog, Nature, Essence

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: a novel”, Norman Berg

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• A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

  George Herbert

  Children, Rich, Dies

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Voice, Giving

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