Baa Baa Black Sheep Quotes

#1. Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins.

Terry Eagleton

#2. My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

#3. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#4. Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. At a training session Neymar dribbled around seven opponents before he scored. It was the senior squad's offence against the senior squad's defence so we are talking about skilled players here. The goal was better than his goal that was chosen as the best in the world.

Peter Banke

#6. People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' ... after they've paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

James Herriot

#8. Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#9. Her face is seamed with a million wrinkles like the map of a state where the geography hasn't settled down - rivers and canyons along her brown leather cheeks, ridges below the knob of her chin, the sinuous raised drumlin of bone at the base of her forehead, the caves of her eyes.

Stephen King

#10. The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities.

Ben Okri

#11. We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Edgar Mitchell

#12. The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

Ann Veneman

#13. Be determined to do good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

Rudyard Kipling

#15. Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dagobert D. Runes

#16. Land of lost gods and godlike men.

Lord Byron

#17. From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray ... Baa baa baa ... Gentlemen songsters off on a spree ... Doomed from here to eternity ...

Donna Tartt

#18. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

Lawrence Wright