The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a… — Henry George Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“When the longhorns could be gathered up and driven, it was theorized that the heat from the herd's mass attracted lightning. (Such… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“ Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies… — Teresa Wright Copy Share Image
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film. — Langdon Winner Copy Share Image
Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!' — Divine Copy Share Image
Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image