Being A Sheep Quotes

#1. Crying is for the eyes as sorrow is for the heart. Both are natural cleansing processes. But you'll more likely see a Christian crying than a Banker, because one has indoctrinated himself in the idea of being a sheep, while the other has educated himself into thinking like a wolf.

Daniel Marques

#2. The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

Hugh MacLeod

#3. Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.

T.A. Uner

#4. As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.

Eliza Doolittle

#5. How wonderful it is being a sheep in the flock of God. Our shepherd is the one that created the grass that we need for pasture, He is the one that created the rivers and the waters, He is the one who holds everything in His hand and He is my Shepherd.

Edmond Sanganyado

#6. If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.

Chris Tomlin

#8. Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

Alison Moyet

#9. He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

Davis Bunn

#10. He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Seneca The Younger

#11. I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.

Andrew Chan

#12. I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

Larry Bishop

#13. Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.

Gin Wigmore

#14. One chapter of my life seemed to have ended; perhaps the whole book was closing. Instead of being the pastoral figure aiding a life transition, I found myself the sheep, lost and confused. Severe illness wasn't life-altering, it was life-shattering.

Paul Kalanithi

#15. To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

Dave Barry

#16. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal? ... Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it!

Edward Abbey

#18. It was like being threatened by wolves dressed as sheep, who had sunk so deep into their method acting that they were now unclear about the whole 'being dangerous' thing.

Jonathan L. Howard

#19. Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

Vance Havner

#20. We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.

Paul Washer

#21. Most of their leaders were evil and deceptive, and the majority of the populations followed like sheep being led to slaughter. I

Cameo Renae

#22. I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.

Patrick Stump

#23. There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go "Baa", as they're being slaughtered.

Skip Coryell

#24. [Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is ... gentlemanly of you.

Alison Sinclair

#25. Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Denis Healey

#26. People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

James Joyce

#27. The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Northrop Frye

#28. The floor was strewn with various animal skins - mainly sheep, I'd guess. It was kind of like being in a German porn flick from the seventies, set in a Tyrolean hunting lodge.

Michel Houellebecq

#29. Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Dave Barry

#30. His lovely wife tends her zinnias in the mild morning light and his find young man comes fondly mishandling that perpetually lost sheep of a cat, Soapy, once more back from perdition for the time being, to what would have been general rejoicing.

Marilynne Robinson

#31. Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.

Ruth Downie

#32. Human minds are soft and easy to bend and mold. Most will just follow, never questioning. They are like sheep being led to slaughter.

Cameo Renae

#33. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Dustin Diamond

#34. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

Pope Francis

#35. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

Jane Siberry

#36. I'm the pink sheep in the family.

Alexander McQueen