Hunting Quotes - Page 20

• Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

  Carl Sagan

  Soccer, Football, Analysis

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.471, Ballantine Books

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• The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Fishing, Sweaters

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• You might be a redneck if you saved lots of money on your honeymoon by going deer hunting.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Deer

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• We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.

  Mark Udall

  Gun, Self, Long

  "Sens. Mark Udall, Michael Bennet Call For Stricter Gun Control Laws". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going to go to Roseville. We got off it and got on another train. And we got to Roseville, and it takes hours to get through that yard. It's really big. So we ended up just coming back here. It's like fishing or hunting. You can't always come back with something.

  William T. Vollmann

  Fishing, Yards, Hours

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Racing and hunting excite man's heart to madness.

  Laozi

  Heart, Men, Racing

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• I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Blessing, Thinking

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• In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Wildlife, Tourism, Essentials

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• Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

  Bertrand Russell

  Australia, People, Rabbits

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.5, Routledge

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• The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Song, Art, Drama

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• You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

  Woody Allen

  Encounters, Riches, Rooms

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Light, Agriculture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.

  Grover Norquist

  Art, Children, Book

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• Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Men, Water, Mountain

  Sigurd F. Olson (2012). “Wilderness Days”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

  Don Rickles

  Organization, Years, Casinos

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• Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.

  Ed Wood

  Home, Animal, Conquer The World

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• ...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

  Glenn Beck

  Sports, Gun, People

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I decline to go fox hunting.

  Princess Diana

  Foxes, Vegetarian, Decline

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• The Internet is the best and worst thing to happen to writing. It makes it so easy to quickly satisfy a lot of curiosity but it dampens curiosity for the same reason. It removes the obstacles that used to make hunting for knowledge sexy. I don't have Internet at home, so that helps. I try not to peek at the Internet through my phone when writing, but I don't have very good stamina.

  Myriam Gurba

  Sexy, Home, Writing

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• Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

  Taylor Dane

  Animal, Water, Poaching

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• When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

  Robert Benchley

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

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• Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the kid in one arm against the heart, so that's the left, and with the right arm they would throw. And it turns out you cannot make that calculation in real time. You have to have an algorithm set up. So these brain mechanisms evolved in order to do that, and when they evolved, the thing is that where there is a useful capability it often adapts to places it wasn't evolved for.

  Howard Rheingold

  Real, Home, Heart

  Source: medium.com

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• The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

  Jon Lester

  Perseverance, Fishing, Games

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