Sheep Quotes - Page 19

• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  Northrop Frye

  Kings, Stupid, Egypt

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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• Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love You, I Love Him, Love Is

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

  Pope Pius XII

  Girl, Feelings, Style

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• Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers” miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Blessing, Safety, Missing

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

  Helen Fisher

  Clothes, Dinner, Today

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• I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Black, Century

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• You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?

  Eloisa James

  Beautiful, Hair, Play

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Gary North

  Two, Majority Vote, Envy

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• I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

  Natalie Dormer

  School, Black, Calling

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• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  Lady Gregory

  Home, Years, Two

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• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, President, Goats

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• There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Needs, Able, Taste

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.230, Random House

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• As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

  Bryan Fuller

  Animal, Emotional, Thinking

  "'Hannibal' producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 19, 2013.

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• ... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Italian

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.301

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• No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

  Morris West

  Running, Men, Light

  "The Heretic" by Morris West, 1968.

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• Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Teaching, Reading

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• What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Blood, Shepherds, Christ

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• He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Brave, Saws

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• The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Thieves, Bells

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• He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Might, Foxes, Angry

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.76, Random House

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

  Kirk Hammett

  Two, House, Obsession

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• A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Now And Then, Ten

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.80, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.88, Trajectory Inc

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• The moon was out and I saw some sheep.
  I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
  By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,
  They walked all night from near to far.
  I would never walk, I would take a car.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars, Sleep, Moon

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