Sheep Quotes - Page 15

• These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.

  Santino Marella

  Cheer, Wrestling, People

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

  William Winwood Reade

  Compassion, Oxen, Looks

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.” “What does that mean?” “It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Names, Drunk

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

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Men, Race, Conformity

  "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.

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• To follow the Savior's example, each one of us must look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances and lift them up and encourage them to proceed on the journey towards eternal life.

  Ulisses Soares

  Inspiration, Journey, Example

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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Oxen

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• Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lying, Years, Two

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

  Hillary Jordan

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Giving, Wish

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would be able to organize both sides. I drew in a deep breath. We had the technology, the intelligence and the people—put enough sheep together and you have a herd, a force to be reckoned with. We needed a leader.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Technology, People, Leader

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.273, Harlequin

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• Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in her chair,yearning for confirmation that he gets it,that they are like-minded in their observations of others and the circumspect way they view the world. "Oh,let's see," he says,rubbing his jaw. "Superficial.Artificial.Sheep. They're more worried about how they come across to others than who they really are.They exhaust themselves in their pursuit of things that don't really matter.

  Emily Giffin

  Views, World, Matter

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• I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Life Changing, Believe, Animal

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.296, Harlequin

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• There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sailing, Sound, Jeeves

  "Joy in the Morning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1946.

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• Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one. I’m the responsible one. Ian’s the wild, hedonistic one.” “What’s hedonistic?” asked Kendall. Her father considered. “It means you run up a lot of credit card bills you can’t pay, change jobs a lot, and have a lot of…lady friends.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Hurt, Jobs

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.198, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cousin, Bed, Cursed

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• Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Shepherds, Terrain

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.17, Delacorte Press

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• Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Three, Ponds, Why Not

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• Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Broken, Want, Fluffy

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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• There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dog, Heart, Smell

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• Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

  Johnny Kelly

  Attorney, Jury, Assembling

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• And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.

  John Green

  Rain, Russia, Wrath

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.59, A&C Black

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• I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Needs, Herds, Bits

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

  Jeannette Walls

  Horse, Winning, Thinking

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Kings, Men, Darkness

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Men, Design, Typography

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