Top 47 Quotes About The Black Sheep
#1. When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.
Tika Sumpter
#2. I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
Alan Moore
#3. Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman
#4. I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
Andre Rieu
#5. I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.
Magenta Periwinkle
#6. In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Daryl Hall
#7. I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
William A. Drake
#8. I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#9. I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
Ann Wilson
#11. There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.
Jerry Oppenheimer
#12. And now here I am, suddenly, after all these years, home. I am not exactly the black sheep of my family, but it is not like I am grazing in pastels. Getting
George Hodgman
#13. If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
Alison Moyet
#14. I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
Adam Lamberg
#15. In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
Ellen Galinsky
#16. [Vincent Van Gogh] 'Oh Theo, don't you think I'm the black sheep, do you?'
[Theo Van Gogh] 'I'm more inclined to consider you as an ass.'
Irving Stone
#18. I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Francis Ford Coppola
#19. I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
Sonny Bono
#20. I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
Matthew Quick
#21. I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
Lisa Bonet
#22. In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.
Nathanael West
#23. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.
Henry V. O'Neil
#24. Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.
Alan Moore
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Her mother paused for a moment before hanging up the phone. "Watch your back, dear. Every family needs a black sheep. It would be an awful lot of trouble for us to come up with another one, should something happen to you.
Deborah Blake
#28. My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
Anne Sexton
#29. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.
Andre Hueston Mack
#30. The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.
Patti Smith
#31. I suppose I look acceptable, the black (haired) sheep among the Barrett blondes.
Stephanie Wardrop
#32. Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?
Donna Tartt
#33. Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
Do summon us to part, and bid good night.
William Shakespeare
#34. When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
Vance Havner
#35. Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had
only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love
Paige Weaver
#36. Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
Alison Moyet
#37. After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
Ernest Lehman
#38. After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
Lou Gramm
#39. 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
#40. Black Meg, the senior nanny, who patiently allowed Tiffany to milk her and then, carefully and deliberately, put a hoof in the milk bucket. That's a goat's idea of getting to know you. A goat is a worrying thing if you're used to sheep, because a goat is a sheep with brains.
Terry Pratchett
#41. 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
#42. I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school ... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes ... it was very 'Glee.'
Lindsay Pearce
#43. But for the young Laban, these black sheep were sympathetic figures, and by letting them appear on stage, he gave them an opportunity to be heard.
Evelyn Doerr
#44. Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.
Hannah Reed
#45. 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
#46. Hey everyone. This is Elizabeth Stone, the one who wrote a A BOY I ONCE KNEW and BLACK SHEEP AND KISSING COUSINS. To those of you who read either one, thanks! But another Elizabeth Stone, not me, wrote WOMEN AND THE CUBAN REVOLUTION and VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. Just setting the record straight!
Elizabeth Stone
#47. When the Lord's sheep are a dirty grey, all black sheep are more
comfortable.
Vance Havner
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