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Quotes About Pigs

Pigs grow very quickly, and you can see a difference within days. So we would shoot with one piglet for a couple of days, and then have to get a replacement.
~ Ravi Babu
eat the food from the pigs snout. it got me to be PriceMinister.
~ Sir John A. MacDonald
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life, and that unless the contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs. But I do not believe that such contemplation on the whole tends to happiness. It gives moments of delight, but these are outweighed by years of effort and depression.
~ Bertrand Russell
He ground his teeth and slapped some slop down into a pile. The stench was beyond overwhelming. "I thought you said pigs are clean." "Cleaner than people usually think, but not as clean as you and I." She looked at his messy boots, amusement dancing in her gray eyes. "Well, usually.
~ Julia Quinn
Shocking many, Puritans wore hats in church (following Jewish practice), refused to bow or kneel during worship (which they saw as a violation of the third commandment), and allowed pigs and chickens in the church, and some of them didn't even know the Lord's Prayer.
~ Eve LaPlante
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
~ Marvin Harris
The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses.
~ Michael Lewis
Watching a pig eat is the ultimate vicarious thrill. Seldom can you take such pleasure in another's joy. Here is someone following his bliss. Pigs are quite literally made for eating—they were bred to eat and get fat fast.
~ Sy Montgomery
Although pigs are generally good-natured, more people are killed each year by pigs than by sharks.
~ Sy Montgomery
Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so.
~ Tad Williams
Scholars who have to spend their time among ignoramuses, or, even worse, are under their control, are to be pitied. Knowledge, being more precious than pearls, must not be wasted upon the pigs who do not want it. This quotation of Matthew 7:6 is often repeated in adab works.
~ Franz Rosenthal
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
~ April Bloomfield
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children's wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you're going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he'd know a lot more about human beings.
~ Terry Pratchett
Lord Courtenay: 2 peacocks; 3 sheep, 5 geese; 2 pigs; sundry pies and pastries .£4. 3.6 1 June 1475 Boots for my lord Simon...................................... 12.6
~ Kate Ellis
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
~ Jasper Fforde
Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them.
~ Steven Wise
Dr. Lecter, erect as a dancer and carrying Starling in his arms, came out from behind the gate, walked barefoot out of the barn, through the pigs. Dr. Lecter walked through the sea of tossing backs and bloodspray in the barn.
~ Thomas Harris
pig is not like other animals. There is a spark of intelligence and a terrible practicality in pigs.
~ Thomas Harris
But Virginia, bacon is breafast. And nothing sets my nostrils twitching like bacon in the morning. Little pigs parading up and down with their curly cork screw tails... Bacon sizzling away on a iron frying pan. Baste it, roast it, toast it, nibble it, chew it, bite right through it, wobble it, gobble it, wrap it round a couple of chickens and am I ravenous!
~ Kathryn Wesley
Man thrives where angels die of ecstasy and pigs die of disgust.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
You're a woman, women are pigs.You pig-woman* Well,that Miss Federal Pigs to you*
~ Candice Delong
Oh, yes. Men were pigs. Some were piglets, all oink and no bite. Some were swine-intraining, teetering on the edge between man and boar. Some were Miss Piggies, no explanation needed. And some were hungry hogs, devouring everything in ther path.
~ Gena Showalter
Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother
~ Gena Showalter
We live on a farm and we've never been happier, living in the country and pootling about. We keep chickens, turkeys and pigs, and I grow veg - it's perfect.
~ Caroline Quentin