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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. -- William Lilly
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. -- George S. Patton
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. -- Heraclitus
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. -- Grandma Moses
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. -- William O. Douglas
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. -- Sherwood Anderson
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. -- Jared Diamond
I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned. -- Clayton Moore
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. -- Chris Cooper
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands... -- Xenophanes
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. -- Confucius
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle. -- Henry David Thoreau
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them. -- Chief Joseph
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. -- Robert E. Howard
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year. -- Alexander Lebed
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside. -- Aaron Klug
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. -- Chief Joseph
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market. -- Randy Neugebauer
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. -- Teresa Wright
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now. -- Mark Bittman
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. -- Albert Einstein
They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it. -- Dick Dale
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. -- David Wilmot
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed. -- Paul Engle
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. -- Sachin Tendulkar
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback. -- Otis Redding
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own. -- Xenophanes
I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears. -- Temple Grandin
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves. -- Xenophanes
We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see. -- Owen Paterson
It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music. -- Brad Paisley
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. -- Paul Hawken
On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person. -- Krysten Ritter
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. -- Vince Cable
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish. -- John Patrick Shanley
Work is the province of cattle. -- Dorothy Parker
We ran like a herd of wild cattle. -- William C. Oates
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle. -- John Dryden
Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor. -- Steven Wright
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you" -- Lil Wayne
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself -- Walter Scott
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle -- Aleister Crowley
Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range. -- Catherine Crier
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved. -- Dave Eggers
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. -- Prince Philip
Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. -- Deb Caletti
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The men were wild as ourang-outans, and the women fit only to flog cattle. -- Richard Francis Burton
The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle. -- Janine Turner
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market. -- George Washington
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. -- Wilfred Owen
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. -- Democritus
We all know that cattle and beef are among the biggest contributors to carbon emissions. -- Jochen Zeitz
I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads. -- Henny Youngman
When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle. -- James Stewart
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. -- Ovid
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle. -- Al Yankovic
I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary. -- Temple Grandin
I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found. -- Emanuel Celler
Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film. -- Langdon Winner
And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep. -- Khalid ibn al-Walid
The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture. -- Wright Morris
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children. -- Martin Luther
Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows? -- Rick Riordan
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn. -- Orville Redenbacher
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking. -- Carl Hiaasen
To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me. -- Padraic Colum
The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle. -- Orville Redenbacher
When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle. -- John McCain
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them. -- Elspeth Huxley
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. -- Walter Savage Landor
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. -- Douglas Brinkley
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. -- K. D. Lang
The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals. -- Temple Grandin
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. -- Tina Brown
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority -- Ray Bradbury
Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer. -- Paul Shepard
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle), -- Manis Friedman
I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses. -- Carroll Shelby
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee! -- Charles Kingsley
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. -- Joel Salatin
See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!" "Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either! -- Rachel Caine
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop. -- Lyle Lovett
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. -- Richard Leakey
We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part. -- Jeff Sessions
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi's may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers. -- Lori Wilde
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. -- Janet Fitch
The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change. -- Ree Drummond
I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. -- Tommy Lee Jones
When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm. -- Clive Sinclair
I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them. -- Frank R. Stockton
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary. -- Lisa M. Prysock
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle. -- Heraclitus
Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman. -- Karl Marx
Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle. -- Jason Lee
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
Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government. -- Ralph Moody
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose. -- Joel Salatin
That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers. -- Thomas Friedman
What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. -- Wilfred Owen
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life. -- Reba McEntire
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away. -- Walt Whitman

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