Sheep Quotes

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

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.

He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

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.

Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.

It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.