Quotes and Sayings about Hunting
"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Idea, Ideas, Hunting, Words)
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Happiness, Time, Hunting, Old, Will, Woman)
"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
(Related: Fathers, Fire, Hunting, Sadness, Silence, Sun)
"They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers."
- Samuel de Champlain
(Related: Future, Hunting)
"The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game."
- Anthony Comstock
(Related: Children, Devil, Hunting, World)
"I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me."
- Gerry Cooney
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Civilization, Animals, Hunting, Sea)
"Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Act, Hunting, Sea)
"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Hunting)
"Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Boats, First, Hunting, Will)
"Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Father, Growing up, Hunting)
"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
(Related: Hunting, Racing)
"The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform."
- Howard Luck Gossage
(Related: Time, Buying, Hunting, May, Space)
"The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Hunting, Now, Running, Wood)
"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."
- Wavy Gravy
(Related: Hunting, Killing, Nations, Resolution, United)
"Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be."
- Philip Guedalla
(Related: Biography, Hunting)
"Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it."
- Thomas Harris
(Related: Hunting, Pleasure)
"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
(Related: Men, Care, Hunting, Man)
"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
- Lou Henry Hoover
(Related: Father, Thought, Camping, Fishing, Girls, Hunting, Years)
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Civilization, America, Environment, First)
"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Animals, Draft, Tools)
"Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Blessings, Climate, Man, Mountains)
"America is the last great goal of these migrations."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Goal, America)
"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Life, American, Learning)
"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Beauty, Love, Nature, Learning)
"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Earth, Evolution, Past, Today)
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: People, May, Mountains, Numbers)
"The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale."
- Ellsworth Huntington
"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Life, Abundance, Winter)
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Ability, Climate, Man, Mind)
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Proof)
"The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Home, Man)
"The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America)
"The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal."
- Ellsworth Huntington
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: May, Study)
"Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America, Climate, May)
"It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America)
"Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Home, Man)
"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Beginning, Environment, Race)
"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Nature, Knowledge, Majority, Occupations, World)
"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Climate, Mammals)
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: History, Environment, Man)
"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America, Earth)
"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: History, Home, America, Fact, Inheritance, Man, Past, Present)
"Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Body, Man, Mind)
"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Fact, Plants, Variety)
"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Nature, Man)
"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Home, Animals, Company)
"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Journey, states, Turkey, United)
"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: People, Water)
"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America, Circumstances, Man)
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: America)
"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Mankind, Now, Theory)
"The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: State)
"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Truth, America, American, Identity, Nation, Worth)
"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society, Country, Culture, Europe, Generations, Repression)
"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society)
"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: World)
"Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: People, American)
"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Truth)
"We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Thought)
"We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Time, American, Revolution, Identity)
"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: English, Independence)
"Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods."
- Samuel P. Huntington
"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: First, states, United, World)
"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Cooperation, Countries)
"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Concern, Now, Problems)
"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Time, Civilization, Will)
"And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Control, World)
"It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?"
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Countries, Europe, France, Germany, Will)
"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: World)
"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society, People, Country)
"I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Countries, Democracy, Direction, Rights, Human rights, Influence, Nations, states, United)
"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: First)
"Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: America, Nation)
"But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: May)
"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Countries, Question)
"Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Time, Thought, America, Americans, Country)
"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Identity, Nothing, Past)
"Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing."
- Harry Johnston
(Related: History, American, Earth, Europe, Fishing, Hunting)
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance."
- James Joyce
(Related: Balance, Hunting, Shakespeare)
"Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Americans, Camping, Fishing, Hunting)
"I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest."
- DeForest Kelley
(Related: Fishing, Hunting, Rest)
"When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning."
- Marv Levy
(Related: Father, Fun, Hunting)
"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Day, Hunting, Night, Numbers)
"Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: People, Management, Day, Hunting, Mouse, Security, Vulnerability)
"Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?"
- Walter F. Mondale
(Related: Life, Family, Being, Fishing, Friends, Hunting, Night, Sleep, Want)
"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
(Related: Friend, First, Fishing, Hunting, State, Washington)
"Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world."
- Ted Nugent
(Related: Dogs, Hunting, World)
"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Cows, Fun, Hunting)
"After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Family, Son, Country, Wood, Years)
"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Graduation, Dream, College, Hunting, Job)
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
- Paul Rodriguez
(Related: Hunting)
"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."
- Wally Schirra
(Related: War, Childhood, Hunting, Years)
"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
- John Philip Sousa
(Related: Son, Hunting, Now, Pleasure)
"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him."
- Larry Speakes
(Related: Being, Hunting, Learning, President, Press)
"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Experience, Time, Hunting)
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
- Hunter S. Thompson
(Related: Eye, Hunting)
"You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox."
- Tim Vine
(Related: Fact, Hunting, Night)
"Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Related: Country, Hunting, Old, Poor, Want, Years)