A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

- Carson Daly

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

- Gary Ackerman

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

- Joel Salatin

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

- Kenneth Langone

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

- Konrad Adenauer

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

- Loretta Lynn

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

- Larry McMurtry