Goat Quotations

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

We hope to sell a lot of them, and we will be selling them up until the 24th, ... Along with that, we're putting on a lamb and goat show out at Gibbs Ranch and that's where we're going to have our drawing.

When we started in 1984 and told banks and others we were planning to build a business making goat cheese, we were asking them to make a leap of faith. When we asked them to help with this project, we were asking them to express their continued confidence in us. It is very gratifying that they did.

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.

Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.

Obviously (the home run) was the last thing on my mind. I went from goat to hero.

If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

If a wolverine gets above them, they have better chances of getting a kid or driving a goat off a cliff.

He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation." ()

It appeared to him that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers.

I was watching a game the other night, and in between the innings, a goat ran across the screen. I thought that was the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Or vote 1-800-Which Curse is Stronger, the Goat or the Curse of the Babe. It's crazy.

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

I stink right now. You get booed when you do bad in my job. You're either the hero or the goat every day. ... I've been the goat pretty good for awhile here.

We have all the usual events like bull riding, steer riding and barrel racing. But we also have the camp events, that are just fun, like a Wild Drag Race and Goat Dressing.

Those can fuel the terrorists. It can certainly get their goat and encourage them.

The only curse left is the little goat on the North Side,

Bring me A bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat

During the winter, the wolverine relies heavily on the goat for food. We were always amazed at how these animals will cross the mountains in Glacier, going straight up incredible terrain. We're beginning to think there is some method to their madness.

The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat

That's just what they do. I get booed when you do bad in my job. It's part of it. You're the hero or the goat every day -- it's been like that for I don't know how many years -- and I've been a goat pretty good for a few days.

Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have here.

They're just mowing it down. Not every goat would do that. These goats wouldn't get moved to a fresh pen until they finish feeding every day. Sometimes they get moved twice a day. They learn to target the weeds to move.

About 10 years ago mother helped with a premature baby goat which was about the size of a cat. She would get up during the night and nurse it with a bottle.

A bunch of us who are members get together every year at Eddie Pennington's Campground, in Crofton, Kentucky. We call it the Goat Ropin' Festival. It began 10 years ago on my 70th birthday, and this year they plan to celebrate my turning eighty. I've been blessed with good friends.

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.

It's one of the great spectacles in golf, especially Saturday and Sunday when the fans really get going. It makes golf feel like a true stadium sport. In a way, it adds a lot of pressure because you don't want to be a goat there.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

I love the growth and expansion. What I don't want to see is more trees popping up in memory of someone (at an accident site). It gets dangerous when you try to put city traffic on a country road that amounts to a little more than a goat trail.

HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When even his dog deserts him, and his goat With tranquil disaffection chews his coat While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou, The star far-flaming on thine angel brow, Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint The promise of a clerkship in the Mint. --Fogarty Weffing

I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese.

The lion is the king of the jungle. The track is my jungle. And the word GOAT is here... it stands for greatest of all time.