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Quotes About Cowboys

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.
~ Jason Witten
I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.
~ Michael Horse
Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.
~ Carolyn Brown
The other guy on that gig was George Jones. They trailed in with tumbleweed following them, as if tumbleweed was their pet. Dust all over the place, a bunch of cowboys. But when George got up, we went whoa, there's a master up there.
~ Keith Richards
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
~ Blake Shelton
I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
~ Cristela Alonzo
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
~ John Hurt
As in a dream we zoomed through small crossroads towns smack out of the darkness, and passed long lines of lounging harvest hands and cowboys in the night.
~ Jack Kerouac
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
~ Irma Joubert, Persomi
When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.
~ Hal Needham
I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.
~ Johnny Depp
Real cowboys don't line dance. We like to dance nice and close. Close enough to polish our belt buckles.
~ Cat Johnson
And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away from Western individualism and toward the idea of an activist government.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.
~ Larry McMurtry
If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.
~ Ross Knox, 1985
Dear God... Please tell momma that REAL Cowboys don't take baths they just DUST OFF. -Amen-
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!
~ Bill Maher
fusing themselves into a single new genre about partying all night with gangsta bitches screwing cowboys to the nasty beat that leads to Jesus.
~ Tim Dorsey
Pirate's Cove. The decor was saddles and spurs and branding irons. The sign remained a lasting testimony that pirates don't sell drinks in north Florida, and cowboys don't sell enough for a new sign. Swinging
~ Tim Dorsey
Lejos, en la llanura, en la noche sin orilla, podían ver como en un reflejo de su propio fuego en un lago oscuro el fuego de los vaqueros a unos ocho kilómetros. Por la noche llovió y la lluvia silbó en el fuego y los caballos se acercaron desde la oscuridad con sus ojos rojos parpadeando inquietos y por la mañana hacía frío y todo era gris y el sol tardó mucho en salir.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
~ Charles M. Russell