Goats Quotes

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

~ William Stafford

There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.

~ Mercedes Lackey

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

~ Will Advise

{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.

~ Pam Hillman

When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cottage doing his bidding, and Nanny Ogg said once that she had seen what she called ‘that devil goat’ sitting in the middle of a circle of feral goats up in the hills. She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness’ because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is. I’ve always been one for the horns, as you might say. Goats is clever. Sheep ain’t. No offence, my dear.

~ Terry Pratchett

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.

~ Diego Rivera

In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.

~ Steve Watkins

Papa, why are you selling our goats? I like these goats.A week ago the price was five hundred, now it's four hundred. I'm sorry, but we can't wait for it go any lower.Mankhalala and the others were tied by their front legs with a long rope. When my father started down the trail, they stumbled and began to cry. They knew their future. Mankhalala looked back, as if telling me to help him. Even Khamba whined and barked a few times, pleading their case. But I had to let them down. What could I do? My family had to eat.

~ William Kamkwamba

Perceptions? Yesugei didn't give a goat's toenail about perceptions, but society was society. ...'Who gives a billy's balls what one or two wives have to say?''Quite, father.' This was strong language, to cite the nether parts, stronger than toenails.

~ Bryn Hammond

I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.

~ Nichita Stănescu

But...that doesn't make any sense...!''It does if you're a goat.

~ Linda Medley

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

~ Rick Riordan

Good things never last, bad things never die.

~ John Darnielle

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

~ John Darnielle