Quotes about paddock

A collection of quotes on the topic of paddock.

    Quotes about paddock

    “I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”

    John Marsden (1950) author

    Source: A Killing Frost

    Mountain, Personality
    Jacques Derrida photo

    “Confined within this catch-all concept, within this vast encampment of the animal, in this general singular, within the strict enclosure of this definite article (“the Animal” and not “animals”), as in a virgin forest, a zoo, a hunting or fishing ground, a paddock or an abattoir, a space of domestication, are all the living things that man does not recognize as his fellows, his neighbors, or his brothers.”

    Jacques Derrida book The Animal That Therefore I Am

    The Animal That Therefore I Am (1997)

    Fish, Animals
    P. L. Travers photo

    “In the village where I live, in Sussex, we made our bonfire in the Vicarage paddock and every year, as soon as it was lit, the Vicar's cow would begin to dance. She danced while the flames rose up to the sky, she danced till the ashes were black and cold. And the next morning — it was always the same — the Vicar would have no milk for his breakfast. It is strange to think of a simple cow rejoicing at the saving of Parliament so many years ago.”

    P. L. Travers book Mary Poppins Opens the Door

    NOTE
    Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)

    Thinking, Dance
    Robert Herrick photo

    “Here a little child I stand
    Heaving up my either hand.
    Cold as paddocks though they be,
    Here I lift them up to Thee,
    For a benison to fall
    On our meat, and on us all.”

    Robert Herrick (1591–1674) 17th-century English poet and cleric

    Noble Numbers (1648), "A Child's Grace".