Quotes Tagged "hunting"

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.

I will always look for what my eyes cain’t see.

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

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.

Over the years, with hunting, I think what's become my favorite part of hunting is how self-sufficient I'm becoming.

The Hunting Bayou and Greens Bayou watersheds have experienced major flooding over the years and are crying out for investment to protect the hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses in those areas.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.