Cows

Famous quotes containing the word cows:

    “We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
    The meadow creeps implacable and still;
    A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
    One two three the cows bulge on the hill.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
    —Philip Roth (b. 1933)