Lambs Quotes - Page 2

• In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

  John Owen

  Elephants, Swim, Wade

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• My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Wife, Sauce, Mint

  Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

  Crystal Eastman

  Lying, Together, Lions

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

  Jonathan Demme

  Silence, Quiet, Made

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

  Samuel Gompers

  Morning, Believe, Umpires

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

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• You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

  Anthony Hopkins

  White, Agents, Generations

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• I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

  Jeremy Irons

  Brother, Years, Yule

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Smart, Book, Silence

  "The Passion of the Oprah" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

  Jacopo Sannazaro

  Eye, Son, Evil

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• You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dark, Wake Up, Sometimes

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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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• Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Liberty

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

  Elihu Root

  Streams

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Inspirational, Civilization, Skins

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

  Arthur Baer

  Past, Lefties, Grove

  "The greatest pitcher of all time?" by David Schoenfield, www.espn.com. March 7, 2014.

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• After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Dragons, Silence, Stories

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• Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

  William Blake

  Sheep, Littles, Made

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Lamb'

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• Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
  So I make an idle boast;
  Jesus of the twice-turned cheek
  Lamb of God, although I speak
  With my mouth thus, in my heart
  Do I play a double part.

  Countee Cullen

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America

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• Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Heart, Son, Blood

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• The blood of the lamb applied over the doorpost on the night of Israel's deliverance from Egypt distinguished the obedient from the disobedient. Just so today the applied blood of the Lamb of God is the distinguishing mark of God's called out ones, the church.

  Billy Graham

  Night, Israel, Egypt

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• The novelist does not long to see the
  lion eat grass. He realizes that one and
  the same God created the wolf and the
  lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his
  work was good.”

  Andre Gide

  Long, Novelists, Doe

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• The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ravens, Giving, Deceit

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1473, Barbour Publishing

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• We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Blood, Lust

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• 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

  Sheep, Gentleman, Black

  "Gentlemen-Rankers" st. 1 (1892)

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• The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wise, Stars, Angel

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