Top 100 Quotes About Cows
#1. Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
Brian Chippendale
#2. Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows.
Doreen Cronin
#3. I got mouths to feed,
Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.
GZA
#4. 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
#5. I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???
Louise Rennison
#6. Should I be in distress? In a meadow? You mean if the cows organize some sort of attack? I have extensive experience with cows. They almost never do that." "Forget
Deanna Raybourn
#7. Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape
Oliver Sacks
#8. I can not draw sheep and cows if I do not understand their lives.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#9. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.
Walter Mosley
#10. More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?
Toni Morrison
#11. If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
Jean De La Fontaine
#12. Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Edward Abbey
#13. The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."*
Mary Roach
#14. The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
Robert Grosseteste
#15. It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?
Craig Venter
#16. A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class
Charles Bukowski
#17. I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"
Denis Leary
#18. So green this summer and so fresh. There are white and gold daisies among the grass in front of an old wire fence, a meadow with some cows and far in the distance a low rising of the land with something golden on it. Hard to know what it is. No need to know.
Robert M. Pirsig
#19. A big blizzard proves there's no global warming in the same way being out of milk proves there's no such thing as cows.
Dana Gould
#20. Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul
#22. Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas De Quincey
#23. Somebody got to think for women and chillun and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves ... When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.
Zora Neale Hurston
#25. I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home.
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:
Groucho Marx
#26. The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
Ann Veneman
#27. I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.
Michael Lomenda
#28. What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.
Paul Rodriguez
#29. A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.
Cat Deeley
#30. Isn't it weird that we drink milk, stuff designed to nourish baby cows? How did THAT happen? Did some cattleman once say, "Oh, man, I can't wait till them calves are done so I can get ME a hit of that stuff."
Jerry Seinfeld
#32. The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
P. J. O'Rourke
#33. Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good
Patricia C. Wrede
#35. Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
Dodie Smith
#36. It's cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.
Rick Riordan
#37. Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people."
She nodded. "And so ... hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?"
"Oh ... " I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um ...
Rick Riordan
#38. Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
Bill Nye
#39. Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.
George Carlin
#41. Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#43. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Jonathan Shapiro
#44. Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.
Abraham Flexner
#45. What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son. We
Frank McCourt
#46. God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is.
Martin Luther
#47. Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.
Gena Lee Nolin
#49. An old black bull threw back his head and bawled when the cows behind him didn't keep up, as if telling them the breakfast buffet was about to be spread, and he wasn't waiting for grace.
Carolyn Brown
#50. ."Therapy," Gary said. "I'm going to need so much therapy. It's like watching cows mating and it's wet and sticky and uncomforttable but I can't look away because I'm worried some of it is going to get on me.".
T.J. Klune
#51. You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows.
Dylan Moran
#52. Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile 'cigarette and sweets' stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#54. If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.
Paula Poundstone
#55. The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
Joel Salatin
#56. I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
Irene Rosenfeld
#57. As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
James E. Faust
#58. It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.
Harry S. Truman
#59. If fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
Homer
#60. And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For
Mary Roach
#61. These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
Terry Pratchett
#62. I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
Paula Garces
#63. Networked cows are the most effective milk generators on the planet.
Peter Hinssen
#65. To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.
Philip Kapleau
#66. I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
Agatha Christie
#68. You, me, the animals in the wild, the animal at your feet, the animal on your plate, the person next to you - We are all one We are all holy cows Moo
David Duchovny
#69. She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#70. My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#71. They were a bit like cows but twice and large,
Ken T Seth
#72. Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.
Wendy Lichtman
#73. We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
Joel Salatin
#74. Beside the road cows are lazily chewing grass. They show zero interest in the runners. They're too busy eating grass to care about all these whimsical people and their nonsensical activities. And for their part the runners don't have the leisure to pay attention to what the cows are up to, either.
Haruki Murakami
#75. Cows?" he asked, "Was it really cows, or was I dreaming?
Diana Gabaldon
#76. Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don't make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
Al Yankovic
#78. In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
Carl Sandburg
#79. My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment ... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Bill Vaughan
#80. They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.
Dick Dale
#81. Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
T. Colin Campbell
#82. I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.
Lindsey Vonn
#83. I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.
Kristen Schaal
#84. You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.
Dylan Moran
#85. As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Joan Aiken
#86. Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.
Joe
#87. If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
Xenophanes
#88. If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
Ridley Scott
#89. Beginning when he was nine years old, Spencer memorized the Articles of Faith, the Ten Commandments, and most of the hymns from the Church hymnal while milking the cows and watering the horses each day.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#90. When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
Pat Summitt
#91. To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I'm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
T. S. Eliot
#92. I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.
J.K. Rowling
#93. If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
Don Meyer
#95. I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'
Jason Behr
#96. Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
Robert Duvall
#97. I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.
Don Henley
#99. You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
Curtis Armstrong
#100. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
