"The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Cows Quotes
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one of 525 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
— Jim Bishop
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things…
— Bill Bryson
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they…
— Winston Churchill
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
— Hank Aaron
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"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you"
— Lil Wayne
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To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter,…
— Philip Kapleau
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Kiss till the cow comes home.
— Francis Beaumont
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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