Gary Larson Quotes

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

I have no affinity for cows. I mean, they're cool.

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I hate pigs. I hate goats.

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.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.