Quotes About Hunting

Hunting was not hard work. It consisted of a leisurely stroll in the country with a bunch of friends, followed by a short period of exhilarating terror and a chance to demonstrate how brave and strong one was, climaxed by an orgy of eating and lovemaking that compensated for the long trek home carrying hunks of flesh.

Enemies can be confronted only if they are first brought to earth. And that means bringing them to earth somewhere, as the Americans brought al-Qa'eda to earth in Afghanistan. Globalization may have made it harder to defend ourselves against terrorist assaults, but we are nevertheless defending territory, the place where we are, and hunting down our enemies in the place where they are.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, he said, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Bill had relatively little contact with his rich sons, John and William, but was extremely close to the envious Frank, who shared his love of fishing and hunting.

The hunter who consistently brought meat back displayed daring and courage, two qualities that females desired in a potential mate. Thus hunting possessed an erotic overtone: meat was an aphrodisiac.

One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. 'Herald

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us. I know. I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be. That's why I had to come. His eyebrow cocked upward. And here I thought you came to see me.

I'll know if one of the bodies belongs to my son. A parent always knows his child. The look on his face would've broken my heart if I didn't want so badly to slap him. Martin, we've stumbled upon a killer's hunting grounds....We need to move.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

They drink blood, he tells me. Who? Leopards. Why? For fun. Leopard beer. He laughs.

With soldiers coming home, trained to shoot guns, there was a marked increase in hunting and fishing. Many veterans wanted to take a well-earned month or two for recreation. In 1945, eight million hunting licenses were issued, an increase of one million licenses since the start of the war.

Ernest Hemingway had said, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.

Many kinds of prey had perfected the art of hiding sickness or injury to avoid being singled out when predators were hunting.

If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might unloaded be Matters not the least to me. You may hit or you may miss, But at all times think of this: All the game birds ever bred Won't pay for one man dead. Forty

When my dad proposed to my mom, instead of giving her an engagement ring, he gave her an engagement shotgun. Because he loved to hunt and wanted to spend time with her doing that.