Cows Quotes - Page 24

• Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore. "I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

  Djuna Barnes

  Humble, Wind, Violet

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

  Tony Abbott

  Average, Challenges, Use

  "Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 27, 2009.

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• If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

  Merlin Mann

  Want, Break, Chili

  "Roderick On The Line" podcast, 5by5 Studios, October 2011.

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• I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

  Carre Otis

  Vegetarianism, Bars, Sushi

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• Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

  Gene Spafford

  Wish, Sacred, Eras

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• We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

  George Lakoff

  Constructive, Knows

  George Lakoff (2008). “Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things”, p.381, University of Chicago Press

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• "You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

  George Ohsawa

  Life Is Good, Herbs, Milk

  "Atomic Age - And the Philosophy of the Far East". Book by George Ohsawa, p. 53, 1977.

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• Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

  Langdon Winner

  Dollars, Actors, Film

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Lightning

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• Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.

  Todd Starnes

  Opportunity, Mexican, Borders

  "Facebook removes my post about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy" by Todd Starnes, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Children, Cat

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

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• You’re a cow
  Give me some milk
  Or else go home

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Giving, Milk

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Air, Tropical

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• I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Names, Leader

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

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• So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

  Daniel Pipes

  Editors, Cartoon, Hamburgers

  "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Ideas, Scared, Poor

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.96, Youcanprint

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• Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better. "Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.

  Kevin Hearne

  Expression, Hands, Long

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.50, Del Rey

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• I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

  Alex Kapranos

  Mcdonalds, Buns, Bloody

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2010

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• A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

  Bob Dylan

  Cat, Dense, I Can

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• I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

  Felicity Huffman

  Kissing, Glasses, Years

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