Cows Quotes - Page 27

• The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
  The meadow creeps implacable and still;
  A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
  One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

  Allen Tate

  Dog, Lying, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• When the cow gives blood
  and the Christ is born
  we must all eat sacrifices.
  We must all eat beautiful women.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Christmas, God

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Faith, Believe, Writing

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

  William Golding

  Animal, Men, Fire

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• If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Wells, Every Man

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• We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

  Barry Mazur

  Simple, Numbers, Three

  Barry Mazur (2004). “Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”, p.138, Macmillan

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• The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pity, Sermons

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

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• My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Mind, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, World, Worship

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

  Don Henley

  Song, Baby, Shame

  "If Dirt Were Dollars". Song by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, John David Souther, 1989.

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• When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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• Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

  Jane Smiley

  Happy Birthday, Winter, Years

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Some Luck: A novel”, p.10, Anchor

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• We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Entrepreneur, Tasks

  "The mouse turns 40: An interview with Paul Saffo on technology’s past and future". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges 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.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Inspirational, Running, Native American

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• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  'Just So Stories' (1902) 'The Cat that Walked by Himself'

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• It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

  Stan Shih

  Entrepreneur, Tails, Chickens

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• You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Moon, News

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• The sport needs the cash cow back.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Motivation, Needs

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• To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Together, Astonishment, Saws

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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.

  Thom Hartmann

  Airplane, Car, Environmental

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, July 23, 2009.

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• SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Character, Cat

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Thinking, Wife, Buying

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