Top 100 Quotes About Cowboys
#1. We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.
Jerry Jones
#2. I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
Andre Benjamin
#3. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.
Saki
#4. If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.
Tim Leiweke
#5. Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.
Emmitt Smith
#6. While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.
Tony Blankley
#7. She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.
Melissa Cutler
#8. Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.
Maureen Dowd
#9. I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
Mark Goddard
#10. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.
Sinclair Lewis
#11. He's not sure how all the cowboys stay so good-looking in the movies when the country is so openly hostile to sartorial maintenance.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#12. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?
Cat Johnson
#13. Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.
Bum Phillips
#14. With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.
Charlie Wilson
#15. Oh, there's not much to tell. I served in the Ninth Iowa Infantry. That's where I met Frankie...Frank. I mean, Mr. Greerson. We were discharged almost a year go, July of last year, and stayed with my mother over the winter. And then we came here. That's about it.
Dean Frech
#16. Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.
Rebecca Solnit
#17. Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
#18. I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#20. So are you officially moved in to her place yet, or just staying over there every night?
Cat Johnson
#21. My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
Tom Landry
#22. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.
Craig Lancaster
#23. I'll catch my death"
"If you don't get out of my sight, you won't have to catch death. I'll bring it to you
Stacey Kayne
#24. A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
Pico Iyer
#25. We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!
Hank Williams Jr.
#26. It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
Al Michaels
#27. I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.
Colette Freedman
#28. Owls visited them at night. Some thought the owls were witches. Some thought they were angels of death. Some thought they were holy and brought blessings. Some thought they were the restless spirits of the dead. The cowboys thought they were owls.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#30. In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.
Scott Haze
#31. Tyler rounded the hood and opened the door. 'What?' he asked when she grinned at him. 'You've got a slide-over-here-honey seat!' His eyes crinkled with laughter. 'Well, what are you doing all the way over there?
C.H. Admirand
#32. In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
Clive Sinclair
#33. Don't let ... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks.
Katie Nolan
#34. Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.
Lee Trevino
#35. Dreams can change, if we all stuck with our first dreams there would be a lot of cowboys and princesses running around.
Stephen Colbert
#36. Man or woman didn't matter. Marty liked men, Kent liked women, and Bridge apparently liked both. But Eric was the one he wanted above all others, and for whatever reason, that felt all kinds of right.
"Shit. I'm Eric-sexual.
L.C. Chase
#37. She had to laugh. "You're making me hungry."
"Me, too." His gaze locked with hers, making it clear it wasn't just barbecue he was hungry for.
B. J. Daniels
#38. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?
John Le Carre
#39. I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
John Sayles
#40. Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.
George Friedman
#41. Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail
John Cheever
#42. You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
Larry McMurtry
#43. The Billionaires' Indulgence series is addicting and a heck of a wild ride!
Scarlett Avery
#44. These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
Barbara W. Tuchman
#45. Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries - America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.
Jess Walter
#46. As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
Anthony Browne
#47. The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts.
Ty Murray
#48. Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.
Tamara Hoffa
#49. We were going to talk," she whispered.
"We are talkin', darlin'. We'll use words when necessary," he said softly.
Carolyn Brown
#50. After all, what were cowboys but the gang bangers of their time?
Scott Cherney
#51. I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
Paul McCartney
#52. Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt."
"You forgot to roll."
"Oh. I knew I did something wrong.
Joan Johnston
#53. Evie," he whispered next to her ear, "I want to make love to you, hold you in my arms, until the moon crosses the sky and the morning comes.
Caroline Fyffe
#55. Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
Deborah Kass
#56. Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.
Carolyn Brown
#57. My auntie reads those. They're lady porn. Nothing but cowboys who stumble upon the preacher's daughter bathing and next thing you know they're fucking under a waterfall.
Eve Dangerfield
#59. You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
Bernadette Peters
#60. We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in.
Neil M. Hanson
#61. On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.
Leslie Le Mon
#62. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
Bruce Jay Friedman
#63. I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
Theo Rossi
#65. In life, genius often finds its home in simplicity. And in the cowboy's world, amid the complications of dealing with cows and cowboys, horses and dogs, and trucks and tractors, there may be nothing simpler, yet more ingenius, than a meal cooked over an open fire and served up behind a chuck wagon.
Rocco Wachman
#66. I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.
John Hodgman
#67. The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.
Mitch Kapor
#68. I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
Barry Watson
#69. I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah
Johnny Mercer
#70. Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in.
C.H. Admirand
#71. Why are you ordering food? We're here to drink and dance with cowboys. Not eat, Bethy said angrily.
She could fuck off.
Abbi Glines
#72. Interesting Fact: During World War II Germans could spot American spies when they sat in this L Cross position. It became popular in the states after cowboys in Western movies used it, but had not caught on in Germany.
Vanessa Edwards
#73. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
M. C. Gainey
#74. It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
Magnus Scheving
#75. For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
Michael Gambon
#76. I grew up around some great philosophers: they were coal miners and cowboys born in the 1920s. They were also vets of World War II. Listen to your elders, there isn't any better wisdom for you.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#77. A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.
Emmitt Smith
#78. Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys ... or Oilers.
Chuck Noll
#79. The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
Eric Bell
#80. He traced her arched eyebrow. "Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you're more beautiful than yesterday.
Lindsay McKenna
#81. Cowboys, aliens, hit men, and now a canyon full of survivalists. Young stared down into the chasm and the flurry of movement their approach was causing and shook his head in disbelief. How was this his life?
J. Fally
#82. I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.
Lily Tomlin
#83. As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
Walter Dean Myers
#84. Cooking isn't hard. It just takes a little bit of imagination and determination.
Caroline Fyffe
#85. Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'
No,' I said.
People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.
Jerry Spinelli
#86. The men, who lumber around with Cowboys jerseys hanging past their coattails and their pants bagged around the heels of their boots, a fatal foreshortening of vertical line that makes them look like a bunch of hulking twelve-year-olds.
Ben Fountain
#87. Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.
Josh Strnad
#88. Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.
Bernhard Goetz
#89. I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
Cynthia Breazeal
#90. Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)
Earle Gray
#91. I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.
Arnold Palmer
#92. You have wondered perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys
David Foster Wallace
#93. All right, I figure I got a beating coming. Let's get at it."
"That's not why I came."
"Why did you then?"
"To find out why you did it."
Jeff looked at the floor. "I don't know."
"Want to do it again?
Catt Ford
#94. Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
Steve Kanaly
#95. They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.
Jack Schaefer
#96. A cowboy huh? I would rather be who I am now. I never had dreams of being anything but an Alpha. Besides, cowboys ride horses...wolves ride women! There's much more fun to be had that way. CADE
M. Corchis
#98. It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.
Chris Hadfield
#99. There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
John Paul Warren
#100. Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
Wayne White
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