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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
I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops. -- Zola Budd
Cows are gentle, interesting animals. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. -- Charles Dickens
Cows are the Devil's handmaidens. -- Linda Howard
Cows scream louder than carrots. -- Alan Watts
Kiss till the cow comes home. -- Francis Beaumont
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. -- Will Rogers
Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls. -- Thomas Haden Church
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all. -- Bob Dylan
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. -- Arthur Koestler
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash
Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout. -- J. B. Morton
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. -- Imran Khan
Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed. -- T. Colin Campbell
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. -- Ridley Scott
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. -- Douglas Coupland
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. -- Grant Wood
Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else. -- Robert Duvall
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. -- Colin Wilson
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. -- Michael Klaper
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
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either. -- Carrie Underwood
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made. -- John Hanning Speke
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
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over. -- Bryan Callen
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow. -- William Lyon Phelps
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
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
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
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
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. -- Wilma Mankiller
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. -- Winston Churchill
If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself. -- Stuart Appleby
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour. -- Derek Jarman
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -- Anne Tyler
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence. -- Lydia Davis
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply. -- Ann Veneman
To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect. -- Bill Bryson
1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet. -- Howard Lyman
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! -- Patrick Stewart
Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians? -- Jeremy Clarkson
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. -- Abbie Hoffman
We spend more on cows than the poor. -- Gordon Brown
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. -- Jim Bishop
They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it. -- Dick Dale
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. -- Daniel Drew
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. -- Peter Singer
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. -- Indira Gandhi
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. -- James Dean
Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday. -- Martina McBride
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. -- Ari Fleischer
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. -- Dominic Monaghan
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows. -- Vir Das
If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set. -- Anthony Hopkins
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
Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table. -- Si Robertson
I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! -- Emma Watson
I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience. -- Kristen Schaal
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
We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. -- Eric Schlosser
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk their prized Jersey cow across a stage in front of an audience with judges, and maybe the cow even twirls around a couple of times. Then the winning cow gets a satin ribbon draped over it, which has the title and the year on it. -- Sherry Argov
I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do. -- Tyson Chandler
It's like hunting cows -- Jon Stewart
Cease, cows, life is short. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sacred cows make great hamburgers. -- Robert Reisner
Total contentment is only for cows. -- Bette Midler
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators. -- Nikki Giovanni
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness. -- Craig Ferguson
Steak is delicious and cows are stupid. -- Joe
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). -- Henry Ward Beecher
Milk many cows but make your own butter. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds. -- Libba Bray
A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God -- Martin Luther
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people. -- Denis Waitley
There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows. -- Russell Crowe
Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general? -- Richard Dawkins
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. -- Joan Dye Gussow
Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows! -- Yves Saint Laurent
Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me. -- Abraham Flexner
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. -- Margaret Mead
God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. -- Martin Luther
Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered. -- George Carlin
I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed. -- GZA
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. -- Irving Stone
We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field. -- Werner Herzog
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red. -- Rick Riordan
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. -- George Bernard Shaw
Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows. -- Eric Stonestreet
If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows. -- Merlin Mann
Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do. -- Kirby Larson
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like. -- Enoch Powell
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. -- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa, than hailing cabs here in New York. -- Carrie Underwood
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows. -- Eric Stonestreet
If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat? -- Homer
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair. -- Joseph Addison
It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows. -- Tom Upton
Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water. -- Robert H. Schuller
I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them. -- Anthony Ward Clark
Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows? -- Darynda Jones
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. -- George Orwell
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The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows. -- Robert J. Samuelson
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life." -- Jon Katz
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. -- Jon Katz
Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation. -- Lala Lajpat Rai

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