Quotes About Cattle

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.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

His private opinion about a lot of the baby thugs and delinquents he encountered on the job was that what they really yearned after, whether they knew it or not, was a rifle and a horse and a herd of cattle to drive through dangerous terrain.

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

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.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Achaeans largely took over the south-eastern coast of Italy. This country is popularly supposed to have been given its name by the Greeks: Italia would be the land of (w)italoí, 'yearling cattle', a dialectal variant of etaloí, later borrowed in fact into Latin as vituli, and still with us in the word veal.

The ups and downs, the dreams and struggles, had all been part of the journey, she realized—a journey that led to a cattle ranch near a town called King, where she had fallen in love with a cowboy named Luke.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

Has the world gone insane? This kind of thing didn't happen in Wyoming. The horses or cattle never got jealous or murderous." She slid into the backseat of the car, and he followed. "Well, occasionally, one did, but it was easy enough to stop them. We ate the steer that gave us trouble and worked with the horse until it behaved." Giovanni laughed. "Well, I don't think Aaron or the hit man would like it if we ate them.

children with calm efficiency, escorting them safely into the keep.  When all were accounted for, she took refuge there as well. Ian drove the last of the cattle into the

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw men die violent deaths as they worked among the horses and cattle, or fought in evil feuds with one another; but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living.

ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.

A little-known fact is that most American of icons, the open-range cattle industry, originated in El Norte and was based on Spanish precedents. A mix of arid plains, high deserts, and Mediterranean coastline, Spain bears a physical resemblance to El Norte.

Do you know anything about cattle?" "Olivia, Irish butter is known to be the best in the world. Wher do you think we get it from? Chickens? I grew up on a farm. More over." (Conor)

Once in royal David's cityStood a lowly cattle shed,Where a mother laid her babyIn a manger for his bed:Mary was that mother mild,Jesus Christ her little child.

Mail', from the Old Norse 'mal', meant 'tribute' or 'rent' – which was sometimes paid in meal or grain – while 'black' was the common collective noun for cows, bulls and oxen, which were usually black. 'Grassmail' was money paid to a landowner for grazing rights; 'blackmail' paid for the protection and recovery of cattle.