Sheep Quotes - Page 18

• Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

  John Milton

  Hook, Mouths, Blind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 114

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• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  William Blake

  Humble, White, Rose

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.84, eBookIt.com

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• The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them, forty in number, pouring along a street with their director - now in front, now at the rear, circling them like a sheep dog - and really the process is as like herding as may be.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dog, Cities, Numbers

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• The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.

  N. C. Wyeth

  Children, Character, Space

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• As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Perception, May, Venture

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.17, Aeterna Press

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• To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

  George Herbert

  Wind, Giving

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

  Umar

  Resurrection, Ask Me, Shore

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Skeletons

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• Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Names, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.129, Penguin

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• 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.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Iron, Long, Wool

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, Drinking, School

  "Near to the Wild Heart" by Clarice Lispector, (p. 43), 1943.

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• I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dog, Halloween, Thinking

  "The Gum Thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2011.

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thieves, World, Stealing

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

  Andre Rieu

  Mother, Black, Understood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

  Colin Mochrie

  Gentleman, Jury, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Simple, People, Sometimes

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Cat, Giving

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• I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, Family And Friends, Scratches

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Good Friend, Gentleman

  "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness".

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• I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Country, Attitude, Australia

  "Geoffrey Rush To The Rescue". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2010.

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• The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Military, Skulls

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• I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee.

  Lindsay Pearce

  Athlete, School, Kids

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