logo

Quotes About Cattle

She stood alone in the blustery wind, as cold in her heart as she was in her fingertips. Finally, moving like an old woman, she got on her mustang and started for home. A home without enough grass. A home with cattle so far from her cabin, it would be a life-and-death struggle to get to them through the winter. A home so lonely that Bailey, a woman who didn't cry let the wind cry for her.
~ Mary Connealy
She'd heard they were gentle, even the bulls. And she was savvy about cattle. She knew how to judge their tempers and stay clear of them when necessary.
~ Mary Connealy
Except for those occasional looks, she'd always had the impression he was avoiding her. And the fact that he was so attractive pinched hard. She'd done her best to ignore him, but she'd taken a liking to his herd of shining black Angus cattle. In fact she liked them a whole lot more than him.
~ Mary Connealy
Cattle grazing on public lands is heavily subsidized by the federal government, so yes, all of us taxpayers are helping to pay for tremendous environmental degradation.
~ Unknown
By doing this, apparently they have earned the right to change its name to "beef," which is the monosyllable furthest away from "cow," because the last thing a human wants to think about when eating cow is an actual cow.
~ Matt Haig
He created man in his own image, and gave him dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and the cattle and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Which anyone could see was one big fat recipe for disaster.
~ Meg Rosoff
Bending Spring Ranch, Cole Valley, Colorado." "What kind of a ranch is it anyway?" Dennis had asked Jules originally when the property had been purchased. "Cattle? Dude? I wasn't really sure." "No, it's a tax ranch," she'd said. "See, they raise little tax brackets there. It's the only one of its kind in the world.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
~ Mike Johanns
MIGHT AS WELL RAISE MOOSHROOMS
~ Mur Lafferty
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens...
~ Myrlie Evers-Williams
In Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt looks back on her childhood and early married life in the 1950s and '60s on cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, and explores what it meant to be female in that place and time.
~ Nancy Pearl
In the fields, cattle, memories dissolved by so many liquid mornings, noons and nights, had forgotten they dreamed of April grass and, by a clemency reserved for those who live placid in a perpetual now, standing in a green sweetness forgot the cold muck-grazing of February. On
~ Niall Williams
stampede strap
~ Pam Houston
going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle
~ Unknown
Punta Rassa," Emma repeated. "That's a pretty name. Does it mean anything?" "It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can't even figure that high.
~ Unknown
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
~ Genesis 12:16
So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
~ Genesis 20:14
“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
~ Genesis 24:35
Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.
~ Genesis 30:32
Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
~ Genesis 30:38
ëLook up,í he said, ëand see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
~ Genesis 31:12
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
~ Genesis 32:15
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
~ Exodus 11:5
You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
~ Exodus 20:24