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  • I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow. -- Eva Longoria
  • Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
  • Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. -- Henry Williamson
  • The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. -- Lennart Meri
  • All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe
  • 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
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) -- Darren Shan
  • ... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods. -- Robert Musil
  • The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters -- Thomas Jefferson
  • It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. -- Steven Wright
  • Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. -- Bill Bryson
  • In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist. -- Derek Mears
  • There's a human out there who is killing off Dark-Hunters, and someone needs to stop them." "? Andy "Well, that's just plain rude." "? Sundown -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. --Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan
  • Brother," Artemis chided. "You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart. -- Rick Riordan
  • Because she's Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid's ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal. -- Iain McGilchrist
  • Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting. -- Derek Landy
  • Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn) You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace. -- Ron Carlson
  • Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read! -- Michael Connelly
  • In the land of badass, you've just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that's what they thrive on, they're cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • There were Arcadians here, Katagaria, Dark-Hunters, demons, humans, and who knew what else. By rights none of them should get along and yet they were together tonight. Bound by something other than blood. They were bound together by their hearts.' (Gallagher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand -- Rick Riordan
  • The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet. -- Sam Champion
  • If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population. -- Christian de Duve
  • Boys are usually forbidden to have any contact with the Hunters. The last one to see this camp"¦" She looked at Zoe. "Which one was it?" That boy in Colorado," Zoe said. "You turned him into a jackalope." Ah, yes." Artemis nodded, satisfied. "I enjoy making jackalopes"¦ -- Rick Riordan
  • You need a name." I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name." "Hunters," Raphael said. "Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said. "Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken." "Fools." Doolittle shook his head. "Fools," I said into the receiver. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Just like birds, hunters know no borders. -- Wole Soyinka
  • Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog. -- John L. Lewis
  • Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. -- Andy Rooney
  • I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention. -- Mary Hunter Austin
  • Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. -- George William Russell
  • Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. -- Steve Irwin
  • It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. -- Oliver Stone
  • It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look. -- Taylor Hackford
  • Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world. -- Marcus Garvey
  • I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey. -- Edgar Ramirez
  • I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game. -- George Eads
  • Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down. -- Mickey Rourke
  • Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in. -- Ralph Steadman
  • The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. -- John F. Kennedy
  • Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. -- Jerry Garcia
  • As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter. -- Bruce Bennett
  • I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky. -- Rod Taylor
  • To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets. -- Robert Dallek
  • I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something. -- John Prescott
  • I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked. -- Marianne Vos
  • I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them. -- Brian Skerry
  • A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads. -- Kevin Durand
  • I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country. -- Eric Swalwell
  • The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite. -- Herman Melville
  • Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
  • Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up. -- David Rakoff
  • In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men. -- Luke Scott
  • Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking. -- Robert T. Bakker
  • When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. -- Duane Chapman
  • Witch hunters is white women's worry. -- Marie Laveau
  • Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. -- Archibald Rutledge
  • We are the hunters---and we are also the bait. -- Rick Yancey
  • Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry. -- Steven Spielberg
  • I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me. -- Deion Sanders
  • So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. -- Gregory Maguire
  • Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters? -- Alexia Purdy
  • You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters? -- Groucho Marx
  • There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters. -- Freeman Dyson
  • The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. -- Richard Connell
  • Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby? -- Jim Harrison
  • Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. -- Paul Watson
  • We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers. -- Eddie Izzard
  • Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain. -- Herman Melville
  • Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey. -- Steve Harvey
  • The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. -- William Shenstone
  • The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives. -- Paul Shepard
  • Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs. -- Faith Hunter
  • There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. -- Tom Lehrer
  • Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters. -- Malcolm X
  • A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters. -- Toba Beta
  • Setting out around midnight, I couldn't help shaking my head, "We're the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever." I muttered. -- Richelle Mead
  • After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar. -- Sophie Jordan
  • There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success. -- Heinrich von Pierer
  • I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips. -- David Hemmings
  • There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. -- James Mattis
  • And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that. -- Al Gore
  • People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father. -- Patty Hearst
  • I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all. -- Shelly Crane
  • When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures. -- Robert Doisneau
  • Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. -- Gale Norton
  • This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead. -- Nalini Singh
  • The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night. -- Warren Ellis
  • Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. -- Aldo Leopold
  • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
  • Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent. -- Janiera Eldridge
  • To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden -- Phyllis Flanders Dorset
  • It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils. -- Peter Matthiessen
  • Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner -- Louise Penny
  • This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten. -- Earl Wilson
  • These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong. -- Sam Walter Foss
  • When a child goes missing, do not all the best hunters go looking in the woods, therefore a child did not go missing, it was the best hunter in the woods -- Moonn Tzu
  • The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven, then condensed to monotheism and finally it dies in irony. -- Lierre Keith
  • Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created. -- David Fincher
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