Calf Quotes

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands .

.. anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature.

She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence.

I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown.

Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder.

Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week.

I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should;

But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.

Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother.

I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf.

It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf.

If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.

[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]