Life Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.”

— Larry McMurtry

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They…

— John Steinbeck

“I know a rancher like you down below Hell's Canyon. He runs about six cows and five thousand sheep. But he calls himself a…

— Loren C. Estleman

“But the fact that in Texas barbecue, you’re taking one of the worst pieces of the animal and converting it into one of the…

— Aaron Franklin

“Poor New Mexico! So far from Heaven; so close to Texas.”

— Manuel Armijo

“Maybe the way he tried to corral me my entire junior year of high school like I was some wayward cow and he was…

— Christine Bell

“I thought about what my mom always said about this part of Texas, “Oh Godforsaken land. I don’t know why anybody would want to…

— Scott McClanahan

“The ranch is yours from this minute. All I have to do is write my name when Mr. Pond brings the papers. I want…

— Gertrude Chandler Warner

“In the meantime, I tried my best to acclimate to my new life in the middle of nowhere. I had to get used to…

— Ree Drummond

“took over the ranch, the cowboys had quit feeding silage, so I didn’t know much”

— John R. Erickson

“If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.”

— Jeannette Walls

“I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn…

— John Steinbeck