My Favorite Quotes

My Favorite QUOTES

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating

acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from.

Cowboy Logic: "Doing nothing is very hard to

do, because you never know when you are finished."

Cowboy Logic: "Experience is something

you don't get until just after you need it."

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little

security will deserve neither and lose both."  Benjamin Franklin

 Cowboy Logic: "You can tell how big a

person is by what it takes to discourage him."

"people readily accept change...  just as long as they don't have to do anything any different." 

"When you graze, you will amaze"

“ Grassland farming is fascinating and challenging.  This approach changes farming from a machinery-based activity to a knowledge-based activity in which the grazier’s sensitivity to the natural world is at least as important as the scientific facts that guide them.  If agriculture is an art, and it is, then grassland farming is the most artful kind of agriculture.”—Gene Logsdon

SAVE GAS—LET’EM EAT GRASS

Cowboy Logic: "A clear conscience

is often the sign of a bad memory."

Pasture- The Legal Grass--The Grass Whisperer

Pasture Walks and homemade ice cream

Are a beautiful thing!!—Daniel Kline Jr.

, “I may not always be right, but I'm never in doubt."—Kit Pharo

Cowboy Logic: "Always drink upstream from the herd."

 "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would 
only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, 
no more plants, no more animals, no more man."   - Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life:  one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle."  Albert Einstein

100 Years Ago (1907) --

• The average life expectancy was 47 years.
• Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
• Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
• There were only 8,000 cars, and only 144 miles of paved roads.
• The average wage in 1907 was 22 cents per hour.
• The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
• More than 95 percent of all births took place at home.
• Sugar cost four cents a pound.
• Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
• Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
• Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
• The American flag had 45 stars. 
• The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!
• Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.
• There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
• Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write.
• Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
• There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE USA!

“He said to remember that the higher up the tree you climb, the more exposed your rear end is for people to shoot at – people who are too afraid to climb the tree themselves”

Cowboy Logic: "Never kick a cow chip on a hot day."

"We stand, in most places on earth, only six inches from desolation, 
for that is the thickness of the topsoil layer upon which the entire 
life of the planet depends" (Sampson 1981).

Cowboy Logic: "Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied."

Great Minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss other people.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things.  Right now I am so far behind I will never die!!

Life is like a coin:  You can spend it any way you want, but you can only spend it once.

Cowboy Logic: “The best thing about

the future is that it always starts tomorrow.”

 “Natural grain-fed is an oxymoron.  A cow’s natural diet is grass!”—Fred Griffen

One seed can start a garden.
One smile can lift a spirit.
One candle can light a room.
One conversation can start a friendship.
One step can begin a journey.
One heart can love many.
One person can make all the difference.
            Author: Unknown

Excellence:  There is no higher honor than human service.
To work for the common good is the greatest deed.

 The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you- B.B. King

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
--Winston Churchill

"There is no vocation on God's green earth that calls for higher elements
of character, for deeper research, for grander nobility of nature than
that of the farmer."  W.A. Hoard

Cowboy Logic: “The trouble with doing something right

the first time is that no one appreciates how difficult it was.”

Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty – but from the strength of an ox comes an abundant harvest.  Proverbs 14:4

Cowboy Logic: "A crooked tree will never straighten its branches.”

“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”. Proverbs 27:17

“We need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine.” Michael Pollan

As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. Proverbs 27:19

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.  For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.  For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.  Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.” —Barack Obama’s speech

"If people concentrated on the really important

things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

 -- Doug Larson, American columnist --

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”  ~Diana Scharf Hunt

“God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.”  ~Author Unknown

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”  ~Author Unknown

“Being right and being a minority of one is still being right.   Being wrong because everyone else is doing it is still being wrong.  Brett Pharo – Michigan

 “The Master in the Art of Living draws no distraction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion.  He hardly knows which is which.  He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves it to others to determine whether he is working or playing.  To himself, he is always doing both.”  -- James Michener

"My father walked an empty, desolate barnyard, listening for the long – ago songs of life. He heard only a loose sheet of tin roofing curled over, scratching itself distractedly in the wind. He cried. He cried because he no longer had the energy to keep the barn full of life himself. He cried because none of his children were willing to fill it full of life again. He cried because he could not die here on the farm amidst life, as his forbearers had been able to do.” ~ Gene Logsdon

"My will is much stronger than my back" ~ Troy Bishopp

“Don’t make the problem the goal.”   Tony Malmberg, Oregon HM Educator/Rancher

Cowboy Logic: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.”