Jim Valvano Quotes

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

I used to have a lot more hair before I got involved with this milk business …. We don't have a lot of public support for our milk policies and that probably indicates we're doing it right.

Milk production is one of India's great success stories.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

I love milk. I always drink milk.

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Farming helped bring another curse upon humanity: deep class divisions. Hunter-gatherers have little or no stored food, and no concentrated food sources, like an orchard or a herd of cows: they live off the wild plants and animals they obtain each day. Therefore, there can be no kings, no class of social parasites who grow fat on food seized from others. Only in a farming population could a healthy, non-producing élite set itself above the disease-ridden masses.

The Pakistanis can get milk from a bull.

It is easy to make a million pesos. Buy an Argentinian for what he is worth, and sell him for what he thinks he is worth.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.

I have never been able to procure sufficient slaves to cultivate my lands and that of any guilt that attached to this trade we [planters] were at most but partners with the Parliament which tolerated it, and the country which profited so much from it.

There's something kind of horrific about milk. Think about it! Think about what we're doing. Milk is kind of gross.

There's always money to get.

I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.

A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.