Hunting Quotes - Page 13

• You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Tombstone, Redneck

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• I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of killing foxes, such as shooting, are crueller is to accuse all those people who work in the countryside of being more cruel than they need to be. In all the time that I have lived in and represented the countryside, I have seen no evidence that those people have that view.

  Ian Cawsey

  Thinking, Views, People

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• We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

  Ann Widdecombe

  Jobs, Order, Ill Health

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• There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.

  Roger Gale

  Night, Ideas, Work Out

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• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  Ann Winterton

  Meaningful, Jobs, Average

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• I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.

  Bill Etherington

  Animal, Thinking, Two

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• Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sex, Curiosity, Unattractive

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• A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

  Zoe Helene

  Men, Thinking, Medicine

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• Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Fishing

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.79, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

  Richard Paul Evans

  People, Gold, Sifting

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

  Richard Overy

  Fur, Togas, Goering

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• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Women, Design, Devil

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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• With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Home, Men

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• What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Hands, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.445

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• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  Will Wright

  People, Treasure, Bugs

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• The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating — a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.

  Jay Leno

  Redneck, Men, Games

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• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  Samuel Johnson

  America, Gentleman, Savages

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”

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• I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

  Channing Tatum

  Deer, Shots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Years, World, Causes

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Spring, Order

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Photography, Men, Land

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• Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

  Eddie Izzard

  War, People, Alliances

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• Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

  John Waters

  Cinema, Splits, Should

  John Waters, Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips (2004). “John Waters: change of life”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

  Girl Talk

  Car, Listening, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Clothes, Training

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