Sheep Quotes - Page 17

• If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?

  C. I. Scofield

  Christian, Running, Sacrifice

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• 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

  Men, Average, Want

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fighting, Men, Survival

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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

  William Blake

  Lambs, Littles, Made

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

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• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  PJ Harvey

  Father, Men, Stones

  "PJ Harvey’s British Invasion". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2011.

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• 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

  Knitting, Land, Littles

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Black, Students

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• 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

  Kissing, Fur, First Kiss

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• Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Two, Voice

  William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub

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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

  Gentleman, Black, Gone

  "Gentlemen-Rankers" st. 1 (1892)

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• In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.

  Mike Harding

  Dog, Strong, Humorous

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• The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

  James T. Shotwell

  Spiritual, Rocks, Convincing Evidence

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• Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand;
  Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand.
  Make dry over-head both hovel and shack.
  Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run;
  Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun.
  Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon;
  And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on.
  At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes;
  And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes;
  Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown;
  The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.

  Thomas Tusser

  Running, Hands, June

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Heat Of The Sun

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

  Propertius

  Fighting, Horny, Enemy

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• Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Fire, Breathing

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

  Carleton S. Coon

  Men, Views, Age

  "The Story of Man: From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond". Book by Carleton S. Coon, 1954.

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• The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood…We should be careful of them.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Membership, Should, Priesthood

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• Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.

  Agatha of Sicily

  Jesus, Heart, Desire

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• Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

  Julia Quinn

  Men

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• According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Sea, Differences

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• In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

  William Langland

  World, This World, Wide

  c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)

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• All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lost Ones, Grace, Littles

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

  Jacob Epstein

  Dog, Break Out, Lambs

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.151, Read Books Ltd

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

  John Milton

  Doors, Wind, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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