Top 100 Quotes About The Sheep
#1. I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
Jeremy Hardy
#2. 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
#3. Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton
#4. A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
Charles Spurgeon
#5. There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
Esther Meynell
#6. Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.
Paulo Coelho
#7. A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#8. The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. You may look in front of you, and on both sides, if you like,' said the sheep: 'but you can't look ALL round you - unless you've got eyes at the back of your head.
Lewis Carroll
#10. Sleep, baby, sleep
Your father tends the sheep
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree
And from it fall sweet dreams of thee
Sleep, baby, sleep.
Rosamund Lupton
#11. Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
Joanna Southcott
#12. Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep barn, remembering the joy implicit in so much baaing life; in every inch of the farm, I recalled my father's presence.
Julene Bair
#15. If God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man,
Paulo Coelho
#16. The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.
Ray Bradbury
#17. Sometimes I think I look like a sheep between wolves so I answer where is shepherded? Sometimes I think I am the wolf so I answer where are the sheep-dogs?
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#18. In a world in which the personal is widely believed to be the political, the sheep of toleration soon turns into the wolf that demands acceptance, indeed, admiration.
Kenneth Minogue
#19. I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit.
R.D. Blackmore
#20. The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.
Madame Roland
#21. She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.
Terry Pratchett
#22. I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie
John Scalzi
#23. He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#24. It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
Terry Goodkind
#25. The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.
Leonie Swann
#26. Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!
Dougie Poynter
#27. I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. 'If you could change one thing, what would it be?'
He pulled the sheep pendant from his pocket. A question filled his eyes. I held out my hand. Riley placed it in my palm and I curled my finger around the necklace, pressing the metal into my skin.
Maria V. Snyder
#28. To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
Mark Twain
#29. If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.
Alfred Bester
#30. God, A Poem
'I didn't exist at Creation,
I didn't exist at the Flood,
And I won't be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-
'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I'm a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms
James Fenton
#31. Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
Haruki Murakami
#32. The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.
Tom Clancy
#33. If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.
Umberto Eco
#34. Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond.
Erin Morgenstern
#35. Boundaries are important. And not only because they keep the wolves out and the sheep in. They determine how much interaction there can be between one thing and another, and how much exposure something local might have to the outside world.
Anonymous
#36. fond of people to stay in the field with the sheep. Well, I've got news for you about people, you big stupid
Jean Gill
#37. The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
Big Boi
#38. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Anonymous
#39. [the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature," he said. "I have not used my magic in a long time, and I am very out of practice.
Robin McKinley
#40. The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
George Herbert
#41. It was Voltaire who said that 'in a government, you need both shepherds and butchers.' The problem in France was that the butchers kept killing the shepherds, while the sheep turned cannibal.
Stephen Clarke
#42. Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.
Elizabeth Prentiss
#44. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. The sheep learn to know the shepherd's voice in the ordinary days of life so that in a time of crisis it can be immediately recognized.
M. Esther Lovejoy
#46. Dancingiseverything,' continued the Sheep Man. 'Danceintip-topform. Dancesoitallkeepsspinning. Ifyoudothat, wemightbeabletodosomethingforyou. Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays.
Haruki Murakami
#47. The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as to Who and Whose Jesus is".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#48. 'Found the sheep too easy to kill?' I ask. 'Where'd you get the weapon?'
'Born with them.' His fingernails are bloody.
Pierce Brown
#49. Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Francis Bacon
#50. To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?
Denzel Washington
#51. It makes it very hard for us to warn people about the wolves when the leaders of the sheep are associating with the wolves.
Justin Peters
#52. Was there a plan here, apart from 'let's all go to the meadow and get turned into confetti by the sheep'?
Seanan McGuire
#53. If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
Jim Elliot
#54. The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.
Glen Duncan
#55. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge
#56. The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
Robert Greene
#58. Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. To find why this sheep's wool was red; and the prize was awarded to a learned man of the North, who demonstrated by A plus B minus C divided by Z, that the sheep must be red, and die of the rot.
Voltaire
#60. 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
#61. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
Pope Pius II
#62. Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back.
George Carlin
#63. I've learned things from the sheep, and I've learned things from crystal, he thought. I can learn something from the desert, too. It seems old and wise
Anonymous
#64. Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'
Dave Mustaine
#65. The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
#66. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
Colin Mochrie
#67. It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.
Martin Luther
#68. And then he realized that he loved the eagle better than the sheep and that he always would and that, because he did, because it was in him to do it, he could never be perfect in the sight of God.
Thomas Harris
#69. They stood high on top of the hill overlooking the glen, the water rushing by, the sheep grazing on the green grass across the burn, and white clouds passing overhead against the blue sky.
He still had hold of her arm, but then he released her, cupped her face with both hands, and kissed her.
Terry Spear
#70. Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.
Plato
#71. You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?
Catherine Aird
#72. Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
Jeff Lindsay
#73. In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
John Gurdon
#74. Stick to the sheep," the armsmaster advised impudently. "They don't snore.
Anonymous
#75. It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil
#76. Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
Isaiah Berlin
#78. I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area.
"Animal attack?" I asked.
Ben Aaronovitch
#79. The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
Plato
#80. 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
#81. You've got that wrong. I care what the people I care about think. But the rest of the sheep can trot off a cliff.
Jo Graham
#82. You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#84. Riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing, pretending to be security against anxieties, and they become then the object of anxiety. They secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf that is put to tending the sheep.
Soren Kierkegaard
#87. If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.
Charlie Higson
#88. Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
Tyson Fury
#89. People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep
Jason E. Hodges
#90. Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke.
"Yes, a little
but not on land
and not with needles
" Alice was beginning to say.
Lewis Carroll
#91. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
#92. How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?
J.D. Robb
#93. I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
Tommy Emmanuel
#94. My lips went inside the sheep's fur. It was my first kiss. What is this. Why did the staff make me do this?!
Onew
#95. Sometimes, you just gotta be the weird one. It's always the weird one that stands out anyway, right? Nobody cares about the sheep; it's the wolf they're all after.
C.M. Stunich
#96. It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf
Thomas Fuller
#97. The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
John Calvin
#98. So just because I don't exist in the sheep man's world, it doesn't mean that I don't exist at all.
Haruki Murakami
#99. Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
Donald Hall
#100. Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.
Marshall Sylver
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