Livestock Quotes

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

You can't expect to see calves running in the field the day after you put the bull to the cows.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

I've got kids, goats. My wife always wanted a donkey, so I bought her one.

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

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.

The human body needs air, water and food. Only the good Lord makes air and water. Only farmers and ranchers make food.

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

My favorite animal is steak.

Those who pasture on the common pastures larger animals of no greater number than ten plus their offspring up to one year of age ... shall not owe any tax or fee for these animals ... to the State or to any tax farmer nor give security nor pay anything for this reason.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

The Maghribis have just founded a town outside Fustat called Cairo. Jawhar, the Maghribis general, staked it out on his arrival in Egypt for his army, stores, and retinue. It now has different quarters and markets, as well as places for breeding livestock, facilities such as baths and inns, and even well-built palaces and useful facilities. Jawhar has surrounded it with a strong, high wall, which encloses a space three times greater than the built-up area: these are parks kept in reserve for the livestock in case of outside attack. Inside are offices for the administrators of Egypt, and a beautiful elegant congregational mosque tended by an abundance of clerics and muezzins.