A Quote by Edward Abbey

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.

Johnny Mercer

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

Henry Green

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

P. J. O'Rourke

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Nathanael West

I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.

Dorothy Wordsworth

I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things, get your horse comfortable. Heck, on the first ride you should be swinging a rope off a horse. You should be doing this not so you can rope a cow, but just to get him (your horse) gentle. You can’t think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you’d better prepare em for it in other ways.

Buck Brannaman

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

Morgan Freeman

I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

Jeff Foxworthy

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

Alexandra Fuller

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

Elia Kazan

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Lyman Abbott

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

Ward Churchill

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Marcelene Cox

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

Kurt Vonnegut

I can't say that I've ever actually got on a horse and roped a cow, no.

Blake Shelton

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