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Quotes About Bovine

But the reformers were right: the bovine digestive system is an extraordinarily efficient mechanism for converting grass, fodder, and even forage into fertilizer.15 Their shit-savings were a form of liquid capital.
~ Walter Johnson
The man eyed the dogs. "My name is George Bovine, Mr. O'Leary.
~ Robert Dugoni
I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew the word, but I hadn't quite appreciated how literal it could be. I
~ Jo Walton
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
~ William Lyon Phelps
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine.
~ Anonymous
To tell the history of the Americas is to tell the story of bovine expansion. Settlers may have made the Wild West and the frontier, but they followed in the wake of their bovine brother. No other animal has so shaped a culture. So many American icons are associated with the cow: the cowboy, the western, the rodeo, the hamburger, the steak house, the Marlboro Man, the very notion of the frontier itself. The story began more than five centuries ago.
~ John Connell
Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: A milk dud.
~ Scott McNeely
Beef went next. Because I used to write for a health magazine, I had heard about Mad Cow disease back when it was known by its scientific nomenclature, bovine spongebob empopalopathy.
~ Mary Roach
The lay reader, who knows only what the biographer tells him, reads . . . in a state of bovine equanimity.
~ Gretchen Rubin
a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...
~ Frederick Forsyth
And the ice is melting in the bowl, and at the next table you see someone's bloodshot, bovine eyes, and you're afraid, afraid . . . Oh, gods, my gods, poison, bring me poison!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I'm healthy as an ox. And you? To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
~ Christopher Paolini
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Good digestion is for the bovine.
~ Christina Stead
Apparently the term refugee can be plausibly denied if both - I'm quoting direct from Neil's memo here - if both, a, no homemade wagons piled high with worldly goods are pulled by slow bovine animals with curvy horns, and b, if the percentage of children under six who are either, a, naked, or b, squalling at the top of their lungs, or c, both, is under 20% of the total number of children under six in transit.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
~ Ann Veneman
A stewardess took a special and personal interest in me. She was a little bigger than they usually are, and a little older than the norm. She was styled for abundant lactation, and her uniform blouse was not. She had a big white smile and she was mildly bovine
~ John D. MacDonald
To me, tea taste like dried lawn-clippings, diluted leaf mould, watered-down compost mixed with a dash of bovine bodily fluid.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
You've never seen surprise until you've looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.
~ Unknown
I'm healthy as an ox. And you?" "To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
~ Ogden Nash