Hunting famous quotes

But time growing old teaches all things.
-- Aeschylus

#Time #Hunting #Growing

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
-- Alan Garner

#Flower #Hunting #Owl

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
-- Albert Brooks

#Hunting #Serial Killer #Looks

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Sports #Animal #Hunting

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Mean #Eye #Hunting

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Exercise #Hunting #Sportsmanship

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
-- Aldo Leopold

#Hunting #Wind #Fishing

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.
-- Allan Bloom

#Struggle #Hunting #Views

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.
-- Allan Bloom

#Hunting #Issues #Conventions

Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.
-- Amy Ridenour

#Sports #Hunting #Numbers

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
-- Andre Maurois

#Birthday #Time #Hunting

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Jobs #Hunting #Doctors

People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.
-- Ann Winterton

#Meaningful #Jobs #Hunting

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
-- Anne Rice

#Hunting #New Orleans #Vampire

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Sports #Hunting #Supportive

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
-- Anthony Comstock

#Children #Hunting #Games

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
-- Arabella Weir

#Hunting

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
-- Archibald Rutledge

#Men #Hunting #Turkeys

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
-- Archibald Rutledge

#Eye #Hunting #Turkeys

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
-- Aristotle

#Animal #Hunting

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
-- Aviva Cantor

#Animal #Hunting #Lynching

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Hunting #Earning

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Hunting #Outlets #Impulse

Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
-- Betty Smith

#Hunting #Years #People

I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
-- Bill Etherington

#Animal #Thinking #Hunting

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
-- Bill Maher

#Sports #Hunting #Games

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
-- Bjork

#Hunting #Hands #Getting High

Hunting is doing business with animals.
-- Carl Eckart

#Animal #Hunting

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
-- Carl Sagan

#Soccer #Football #Hunting

We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
-- Carroll Quigley

#Hunting #Fishing #Two

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Believe #Gun #Hunting

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Sports #Fun #Hunting

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.
-- Channing Tatum

#Hunting #Deer #Shots

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.
-- Channing Tatum

#Gun #Hunting #Stuff

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.
-- Charlene Weir

#Running #Hunting #World

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
-- Charles Dickens

#Passion #Hunting #Breasts

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

#Morning #Fall #Hunting

We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?
-- Chris Abani

#Hero #Thinking #Hunting

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
-- Chris Martin

#Hunting #Solitude #Musical

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Animal #Hunting #Blood

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Family #Hunting #Diversity

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
-- Chuck Norris

#Gun #Hunting #Second Amendment

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
-- Clarence Darrow

#Hate #Animal #Hunting

The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
-- Clarence Day

#Fun #Hunting #Want

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Fun #Hunting #Ideas

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
-- Dale Earnhardt

#Mean #Hunting #Racing

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
-- Dan Quayle

#Hunting #Noon #Politics

The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.
-- David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke

#Hunting #Rifles #Doe

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
-- DeForest Kelley

#Hunting #Fishing #Tadpoles

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.
-- Dianne Feinstein

#Gun #Hunting #Law

If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.
-- Donald Trump, Jr.

#Falling In Love #Hunting #Hands

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
-- Douglass North

#Hunting #Fishing #Two

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Hunting #Accountability #Blame

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
-- Ed Asner

#Hunting #Dating #Treasure

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
-- Ed Zern

#Sports #Hunting #Spectators

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
-- Edward Abbey

#Hunting #Animal #Moral

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
-- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

#Sports #Hunting #Age

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
-- Elayne Boosler

#Sports #Hunting #Needs

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
-- Eleanor Porter

#Hunting #Long #Enough

Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Hunting #Night #Voice

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.
-- Erik Qualman

#Jobs #Hunting #Finding Yourself

I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!
-- Erin Hunter

#Stupid #Hunting #Surrender

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Bad Ass #Men #Hunting

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
-- Ernest Thompson Seton

#Hunting #Buffalo #Firsts

Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.
-- Frances Ford Seymour

#Hunting #Community #Tree

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.
-- Frances Osborne

#Passion #Home #Hunting

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.
-- Francis Parkman

#Hunting #Discovery #Europe

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.
-- Fred Bear

#Hunting #Feet #Tree

If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.
-- Fred Bear

#Hunting #Protect

When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely. You're moreaware. You know the limited range of the bow is only 40 yards or so. You must try to outwait that approaching deer. Careful not to make the slightest movement or sound hoping that your scent won't suddenly waft his way. That's when you'll know for sure and appreciate deeply what bow-hunting is all about.
-- Fred Bear

#Hunting #Appreciate #Trying

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.
-- Fred Bear

#Fun #Gun #Hunting

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life
-- Fred Bear

#Gun #Hunting #Arrows

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.
-- Fred Bear

#Animal #Hunting #Pleasure

Life in the open is one of my finest rewards. I enjoy and become completely immersed in the high challenge and increased opportunity to become for a time, a part of nature. Deer hunting is a classical exercise in freedom. It is a return to fundamentals that I instinctively feel are basic and right.
-- Fred Bear

#Exercise #Opportunity #Hunting

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
-- Frederick The Great

#Compassion #Hunting #Animal

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
-- G. H. Hardy

#Math #Hunting #Use

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
-- Gale Norton

#Hunting #America #Dating

The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.
-- Gary Morris

#Children #Hunting #Rights

Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.
-- Gene Hill

#Kids #Hunting #Fishing

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.
-- Gene Hill

#Home #Gun #Hunting

Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
-- George Archer

#Golf #Hunting #Fishing

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Ignorance #Knowledge #Hunting

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
-- George Catlin

#Father #Sadness #Hunting

I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.
-- George Clooney

#Hunting #Normal #Type

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.
-- George Strait

#Hunting #Texas #Utah

American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.
-- George W. Bush

#Children #War #Hunting

I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.
-- Girl Talk

#Hunting #Car #Listening

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
-- Gloria Swanson

#Hunting #Remembered

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.
-- Gregg Harper

#Sports #Golf #Hunting

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire

#Memories #Hunting #Wind

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Couple #Thinking #Hunting

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Hunting #Blow #Laughing

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Hunting #Filmmaking #Painter

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
-- Guy Pearce

#Hunting #Breathing #Laughing

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
-- H. G. Wells

#Hunting #Sphere Of Influence #Spheres

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
-- H. L. Hunt

#School #Hunting #Thinking

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble
-- Hans Holzer

#Hunting #Years #Ghost

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
-- Hari Kunzru

#Fashion #Art #Hunting

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.
-- Harry Reid

#Hunting #Justice #Terrorism

I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?
-- Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

#Hunting #Years #Impact