Hunting Quotes

• "Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Hand
  • Library
  • Hunting

• It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.

  

  Archibald Rutledge
  • Men
  • Character
  • Past

• As much as I enjoy hunting the abundant wildlife along the river bottom, my wife and I also take great pleasure in sharing the hunting opportunities on our ranch with so many from our community each year. We understand that community service and shared enjoyment of our great lands is the true Montana tradition.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Great
  • True
  • Community

• 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
  • Friend
  • California
  • Fishing

• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  

  Walter D. Wetherell
  • Fishing
  • Attack
  • Prey

• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pain
  • Sports
  • Pleasure

• 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.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • Home
  • Law
  • Hunting

• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hunting

• It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

  

  James Salter
  • Great
  • Men
  • Real

• The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Artist
  • Fishing
  • Kitsch

• I want to play the Tour until I'm 46, 47, and then take about three years off, and then go play the Champions Tour when I'm 50. That's the plan, but you never know - it all depends on how good the fishing and hunting is.

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fishing

• Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Cool

• I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Up
  • Father
  • Respect

• I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Animal

• I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mean
  • Artist
  • Concerned

• 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
  • Hand
  • Fire
  • Silence

• My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

  

  Boo Weekley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

  

  Eric Swalwell
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

  

  B. Traven
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Time
  • Literature
  • Use

• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  

  James Stewart
  • Giving
  • Animal
  • Pleasure

• The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Problems
  • Habit
  • Alabama

• I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

  

  DeForest Kelley
  • Rest
  • Hunting
  • Fishing

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