Coop Quotes

“I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.”
― Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg

“We were the church. As the New Testament instructed. When it was time for Sunday morning meeting, we convened in private homes. To raise a structure and call it a church was the worldly way. A church made of hands was soon cluttered with altars and crucifixes, and was thereupon idolatrous. These false churches, they were not walking in Truth. They were whistling off to Hades. This was a shame, because I knew some real nice Lutherans.”
― Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg

“The birds are ready. They have grown at a steroidal rate on their hog feed and now clomp around the confines of their pen like clucking sumos.”
― Michael Perry, Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting – A Heartfelt and Humorous Memoir of Wisconsin Farming and Fatherhood

“Are you familiar with the real estate between a cow’s eyeballs? For the purposes of simulation, drape a thin rug over a concrete block and then hit it bare-fisted as hard as you can.”
― Michael Perry, Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting – A Heartfelt and Humorous Memoir of Wisconsin Farming and Fatherhood