Quotes About Raising Livestock

#1. I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?

Bill Buford

#2. In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.

Harry Browne

#3. The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.

John Robbins

#4. As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#5. The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.

David Bentley Hart

#6. Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

Robert N. Lee

#7. Well, there was a lack of naked men throwing themselves at me in your absence unfortunately so I've got nothing to help boost your confidence - not that you need anyone to boost that already insanely high ego of yours.

Skyla Madi

#8. I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

K.d. Lang

#9. She didn't realize she was fiddling with the back of her earring until he took hold of her hand and pressed a kiss into her palm. Without a word, he pulled her into his lap, surrounded her with the two flaps of his corduroy jacket, and hugged her against him.

Becky Wade

#10. That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.

Douglas Wood

#11. The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.

Daniel Kahneman

#12. The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

Leila Janah

#13. It's pretty amazing that the Lord of heaven and earth, creator of everything, the God of Jacob and Israel, the Messiah, Jesus, allows us to carry him around in our hearts! He is good and full of grace, even when we aren't. He loves us even when we mess it up. He deserves our very best!

Lisa M. Prysock

#14. If life is not a magic fairy tale then what is?

Debasish Mridha

#15. It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.

James N. Powell

#16. Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Matthew Arnold

#17. I would never watch 'Lost' on TV; I'd just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a row. Saved myself a lot of anxiety that way.

Brandon Jay McLaren