84 Buffalo Quotes

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Famous Buffalo Quotes

What is good for the buffalo is good for the cow. — Vietnamese Proverbs

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. — Art Buchwald

The fat buffalo will attract the lean buffalo. — Vietnamese Proverbs

The buffalo that arrive late will have to drink muddy water and eat dried grass. — Vietnamese Proverbs

The chained buffalo doesn’t enjoy grazing. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. — Wilma Mankiller

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. — Patrik Baboumian

The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it’s taller than the buffalo. — Filipino Proverbs

The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. — Jim Gaffigan

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Mark Twain

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. — Mark Twain

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. — Abbie Hoffman

Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. — Rick Riordan

The thoroughbred wanderer — Sir Richard Francis Burton

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

My favorite animal is steak. — Fran Lebowitz

Short Buffalo Quotes

  • In darkness, the stone becomes the buffalo. — African Proverbs
  • To play the violin for the buffalo to listen to. — Thai Proverbs
  • A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. — Sitting Bull
  • The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. — Ellsworth Huntington
  • Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. — Zebulon Pike
  • The Creator is not a careless mechanic. — Ina May Gaskin
  • A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass. — American Indian Proverbs
  • I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. — Buffalo Bill
  • Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. — Ernest Thompson Seton
  • I know we'll lead the league in defense. — Rex Ryan

Buffalo Image Quotes

American Buffalo Quotes

I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL. — Steve Henderson

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for. — David Mamet

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. — Lewis H. Lapham

Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. — Richard Moe

Water Buffalo Quotes

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. — Ina May Gaskin

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees. — Nancy Banks-Smith

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. — Sid Waddell

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. — Rick Riordan

Buffalo Bills Quotes

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! — Edgar Bergen

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. — Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill's defunct — E. E. cummings

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. — Rex Ryan

It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets. — Al Michaels

Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death — E. E. cummings

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More Buffalo Quotes

I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak. — Sitting Bull

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. — Dennis Banks

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset. — Crowfoot

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged. — Luther Standing Bear

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. — Colin Powell

A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us. — Marjorie Garber

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives. — James Alexander Thom

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed. — Langston Hughes

Whenever you go out to eat you gotta get the appetizer. 'Cause the appetizer's just an excuse for an extra meal. You're always like "Lets see, I will start with the 80 buffalo wings...and do you have a low-cal blue cheese? 'Cause I don't wanna fill up too much." — Jim Gaffigan

Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas. — Michael Klaper

Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo. — Donna Brazile

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round. — Buffalo Bill

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow. — Charles Clover

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. — Sitting Bull

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom. — Chief Joseph

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone. — Henry George

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella. — Michael O'Leary

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. — John Hanning Speke

I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished. — Isak Dinesen

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies. — Dan Fogelberg

At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. — Bernard Cooper

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