Quoted In The Grove: cowboy
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
~Edward Abbey
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That’s why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
~Charles Marion Russell
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy… able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
~Morrie Schwartz
EndQuote:
Where the leather is scarred, there is a great story to tell.
~Jimmy Tart
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Prewritten Prompt for 04/25: search
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Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.
~Will Rogers
That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.
~Dean F Wilson
Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.
~Texas Bix Bender
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
~Debbie Macomber
Don’t interfere with something that ain’t botherin’ you none.
~Judge Roy Bean
Always drink upstream from the herd.
~Will Rogers
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Posted From The Grove
First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you’re on your way to being a Texan.
~James A Michener
I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First, I’m a Texan.
~Henry Thomas
I thought of telling him that if it wasn’t for Oklahoman cowboys and Mexican whores having a bit of fun, there would’ve been no Texans, but that would be counterproductive.
~Ilona Andrews
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They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy. I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
~Michael Biehn
It don’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
~Will Rogers
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they’re good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
~Taylor Sheridan
I’m scared of snakebites – that’s the origin of cowboy boots, protection – but my toes need to breathe.
~Gavin McInnes
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for – until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliché of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.
~Steven Pinker
I will say that cowboy hats and boots replaced our flowing robes and spiritual good looks. At least for the time being! In that central-Oregon desert where thousands would eventually come, work became our meditation.
~Milarepa
Boots, chaps and cowboy hats. Nothing else matters.
~anonymous
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No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? Unless you’re a cowboy, of course.
~Paul Weller
I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
~Taylor Swift
I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
~Patricia Cornwell
I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.
~Skylar Laine
I don’t like kitten heels. I just don’t think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.
~Jessica Hart
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~Ryan Wood, poem by Baxter Black (3:06) so, ya wanna rodeo
https://vimeo.com/365904799
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~Great Big Story: How to Run Away and Join the Circus (2:51) …and why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDEjB2taQkU&t=138s
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Despite common belief, Levi Strauss & Co. did not invent what we know as “jeans”: there were plenty of similar denim pants made before. However, by adding rivets to areas that typically undertook the most stress, such as the pockets, Levi’s found a way to make pants that would stand the test of time.
~Sara Idacavage
The story of Levi Strauss and the invention of blue jeans is mostly legend with threads of truth, which my version stretches to near popping
~Tony Johnston
Cowboys wearing Levi’s gave the brand a rugged spirit of individualism. Casual and accessible, denim jeans were embraced by American youth as a symbol of rebellion.
~Nick Carbone
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I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi’s. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.
~Steve Kanaly
Real cowboys wear Wranglers. End of story. Levi’s may be chic and trendy, but if you work cattle for a living, you wear Wranglers.
~Lori Wilde
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True cowboys are the ones who aren’t afraid to get dirty.
~Lane Frost
Cowboys have a history, a lot of ’em, on a wanted poster back east some of ’em.
~anonymous
A true cowboy knows love, pain and shame but never cares about fame.
~anonymous
Real cowboys never run, they just ride away.
~anonymous
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Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.
~Michael Keaton
Cowboy films often show cowboys who are handsome, clean shaven, young and fair skinned. In real life cowboys were often quite old. They were covered in dust and had little time to wash or shave. Usually their horses were more handsome than they were.
~Meg Clibbon
When you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again.
~James Badge Dale
I’m sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
~James Caan
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VIDEO:
While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.
~Tony Blankley
Canada has become trouble recently … It’s always the worst Americans who go there … We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They’re the only good parts of Canada.
~Ann Coulter
In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word ‘cowboy’ implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people’s individualism.
~Viggo Mortensen
No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead – Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It’s a mind-set of “Here I come to save the day” versus “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.”
~Sarah Vowell
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The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I’m blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you’re put out of a club, you’re blackballed. Angel’s-food cake is white; devil’s-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
~Muhammad Ali
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden – as an unpatriotic act – that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
~James A Baldwin
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~magicalmathias: Red Rose (18:27) dis·miss, underestimate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mJLsjVnHso&t=264s
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~Roger Seto: Los Gringos (5:56) superb animation, sharp dialog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji9x1PljnqQ
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~James Hall: IMPASSE (5:05) improbably, one is badder than the other, animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8HVGjsv8vQ
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The cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man or take unfair advantage.
~Anonymous
A cowboy never takes unfair advantage – even of an enemy.
~Gene Autry
Cowboys are gentlemen who treat women with respect and work hard. They use their manners more than any other man would and ride horse and bulls like their is no tomorrow.
~anonymous
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
~John Wayne
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Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out.
~Willie Nelson
Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he’d managed to get the pink cowboy hat.
~Alex Cox
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It’s a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West — which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
~Hunter S Thompson
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends – who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me – trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.
~Jake Gyllenhaal
Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay.
~Larry McMurtry
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MUSIC:
I think I’d rather be a cowboy, I think I’d rather ride the range.
I think I’d rather be a cowboy than to lay me down in love and lady’s chains.
~John Denver
Cowboys don’t get married, unless they stop being cowboys.
~David Goodman
When a horse wants to run, there ain’t no sense in closing the gate. You can have your space, cowboy.
~Kacey Musgraves, Luke Laird, Shane McAnally
Cowboys they don’t ever understand this thing between a woman and a man
Until they find the one they always lose
~Jack Clement
Some cowboys have too much tumbleweed in their blood to settle down.
~Ken Alstad
A Cowboy never says goodbye, it’s not in his nature
~Kurt Philip Behm
Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We’ll cure your cowboy ways yet.
~Richard Kadrey
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I thought about telling him the truth: ‘Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.
~Meg Cabot
And then suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.
~Richelle Mead
That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she’d be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.
~Cindy Gerard
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
~Alan Moore
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~Roy Rogers: Blue Shadows (3:34) the sound of distance, vintage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-jOOFw-ITA
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~Cowboy Junkies: Blue Moon Revisited (4:37) with Elvis clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3EutT7FK4
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~The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks): Cowboy Take Me Away (4:46) …from here, from this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXMeMstVAhE
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Randy Houser: Like A Cowboy (7:19) video becomes music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn_m7uFL7xQ
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~Paula Cole: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone (3:47) domesticity with a smirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmKUWzbDxg
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~Michael Martin Murphey: Cowboy Logic Song (3:39) cowboy mind at play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6l57jHvg3U
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Nashville is wicked. It’s like a proper music community, but it’s also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you ‘boy.’ I just love that.
~Ed Sheeran
Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I’ve worn black clothes ever since.
~Johnny Cash
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
~Edward Abbey
The cowboy I know is a working man. He is defined by his work, which should not be confused with the term ‘job’.
~John R Erickson
Cowboys come in many different shapes and sizes but all cowboys must be able to ride horses.
~Meg Clibbon
A cowboy is defined by the work that he does. Any man lays claim to that name if he lives on a ranch and works – drives, brands, castrates, or nurtures – a cattleman’s herd.
~Blake Allmendinger
Since he lives where he work, and since he deals with animals instead of machines, the cowboy is never really off work .
~John R Erickson
Like the bears, the cowboy seemed to hibernate in the winter, and our only glimpse of him or the West was invariably in a summer setting.
~Charles W Harris, Buck Rainey
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
~William S Burroughs
I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn’t. I shoveled a lot of stalls.
~Bob Weir
The cowboy life attracts special type of individual who can shift for himself and endure isolation, and one who thrives on physical hardship, a certain amount of danger, and low wages.
~John R Erickson
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My friend Kathy is the only person who’ll be halfway honest with me. ‘Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?’ she asked. I nodded mutely.’ That’s a bit what giving birth is like.
~Marian Keyes
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets. It weeps for the black people who think like white people. It weeps for the Indians who think like settlers. It weeps for the children who think like adults. It weeps for the free who think like prisoners. Most of all, it weeps for the cowgirls who think like cowboys.
~Tom Robbins
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious–or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.
~Naomi Wolf
If I’m being forgiving of myself, I could say I’m somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
It ain’t the clothes that make the cowgirl, it’s the attitude and heart.
~anonymous
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I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.
~Chic Murray
A new cologne is coming out. It’s for cowboys, and it’s made from cow’s manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!
~Bill Maher
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
~Steven Wright
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Some of these bulls are gonna’ spin those cowboys so fast, they’ll look like a frog in a blender.
~Wayne White
A cowboy would rather throw a bull than eat beans with his knife.
~Charles Dorian
The only good reason to ride a bull is to meet a nurse.
~Anonymous
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
~Robert Frost
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he’s likely to be an Indian.
~William Least Heat-Moon
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Any cowboy can carry a tune. The trouble comes when he tries to unload it.
~Anonymous
It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts!
~Nicholas Evans
The bigger a man’s gun the smaller his doodlewick.
~Calamity Jane
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
~Will Rogers
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
~Texas Bix Bender
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
~Will Rogers
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Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.
~Franco Nero
I’ve always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
~Morgan Freeman
I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.
~Lee Byung-hun
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It’s as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
~Ward Churchill
I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
~Edward Abbey
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
~Stephen Colbert
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According to a British poll, you’ve only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don’t run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.
~Jay Leno
I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.
~Lily Tomlin
Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman
~Dawn French
Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain’t a cowboy. You’re not even a boy in a cowboy suit.
~Caitlin Kittredge
And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here’s a hit of ecstasy, run along now.
~James St James
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@Writers Platform
A good cowman knows how to lie to the tax collector and the cattle buyer.
~anonymous
I’m a neurotic fiction writer who’d like to be a cowboy.
~Thomas McGuane
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
~John Hurt
Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.
~author unknown
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Prewritten Prompt: cowboy
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A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
~Beryl Markham
There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse.
~Missy Lyons
What’s that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn’t be rode, never was a man who couldn’t be throwed.
~John Dunning
The cowboy doesn’t need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.
~Charles Marion Russell
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
~J Frank Dobie
Ain’t nuthin’ like ridin’ a fine horse in new country.
~Agustus MacCrae
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The Exercise:
cowboy love
cowboy bandits in matters of heart
sealed vault thieves poach ‘n plunder
cowgirl hearts get torn apart
cowboy hearts break asunder
head over heels ‘n toes over nose
brain underfoot and ass under
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no rhyme ‘n no reason
horses, cows and dog
in that order
rattlesnakes ‘n red sunsets
ridin’ night herd
in a mountain meadow
or a lightin’ storm
dawn, bacon, scrambled breakfast
cowboy coffee ‘n egg shells
come day’s end again
harmonica and a campfire
some’d sing, Joe on guitar
but he’s off to Oklahoma
left the day Winston died
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Wild Quest Story
In the beginning (the Big Inning)
Cowboy created Earth and the uniVerse
called it Horse, for his long ride
from a cow town called Innocence
to alley-wise Universe City
Created bear hide and bare skin
changed to better hide that bare skin
Educated in the White Hat’s shadow
Diploma’d in studies at Black Hat in Ego
Graduated penumbra and certified to know
A degree of Wisdom earned riding the landscape
Pedigreed for eternity exploring the skyscape
Dive in the sea and swim in insanity
Fresh from his bath in sin and humanity
Cowboy saves the day before movin’ on
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low wages
cowboy philosophers
with a past to deal with
alone
in the night
riding herd
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5-7-5-7-7 x 2
cowboys’n injuns
saga of the good and bad
in reverse order
waits for those writing hist’ry
sponsored authors of vict’ry
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cowboy a farm boy
who works for a cattleman
heroes of histr’y
anonymous escapees
gunmen, range wars a movie
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5-7-5 x 3
method actor’s dream
Stirling Silver, fresh cowboy
who dies at the end
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cowboy got some truth
starin’ at campfire embers
that all fires go out
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thoughts need time alone
night sky reveries
cowboys ride alone
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A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours – one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.
~Pico Iyer
You can’t cover up the swagger of a cowboy.
~Jaycee Ford
For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.
Demetri Martin
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There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
~John Paul Warren
If you’re ridin’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.
~Will Rogers
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Cowboys they are all so tough on the outside, but so sweet and soft on the inside.
~Amber
There’s a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play ’em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.
~Luke Perry
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I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
~James M Cain
The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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As soon as I realized that I didn’t need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It’s a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I’ve seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
~Cloris Leachman
Bacon is like a good pair of Levi’s – it never goes out of style.
~Michael Symon
My heroes used to be cowboys.
~David Foreman
So many cowboys….so little rope.
~Sable
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Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride. And the end is not the end.
~Richard Rowland
The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
~Jack Kerouac
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