Sheep Quotes - Page 5

• Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Cat, Thinking, Turtles

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• Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

  Alison Moyet

  Stars, Black, Towns

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• After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

  Lou Gramm

  Black, Ends, Accidents

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• In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

  Austin O'Malley

  Liberty, Skins, Taxation

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• A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Lying, Vegetarianism, Green Pastures

  "Romance of the Cow" by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, p. 81, 1938.

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• I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Kids, Black, Want

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• Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Exercise, Three

  Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.

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• If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  Zhuangzi

  Likes And Dislikes, Bird, Taoism

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• I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

  Greg Laurie

  People, Found, Wells

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• There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Henry Paulson

  Real, Regulation, Financial

  "Henry Paulson Memoir‘On The Brink’ Exclusive: Strongly Defends TARP, AIG Bailout, Praises Bush, Slams Palin" by Marcus Baram, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2010.

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• No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

  Tucker Max

  Want, Firsts, Gates

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• To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Personality, Romance

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• Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

  Clovis Chappell

  Communication, Hay

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• And what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems, young people? THEY'RE CLONING SHEEP. Great! Just what we need! Sheep that look MORE ALIKE than they already do! Thanks a lot, Scientific Community!

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Animal, People

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• In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Land, Brave

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

  R.L. LaFevers

  Life

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• Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Stupid, Want, Path

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• But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

  Charlie Sheen

  Funny, Sleep, Years

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• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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• Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

  Jim Butcher

  Hungry

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• The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.

  Bray Wyatt

  Sleep, Worry, Feelings

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• Mary had a little sheep,
  With the sheep she went to sleep.
  The sheep turned out to be a ram,
  And Mary had a little lamb.

  Steven Tyler

  Sleep, Rams, Lambs

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• One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

  Graham Chapman

  Air, Creatures, One Thing

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• Dogs are just wolves in sheep's clothing.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

  Stanley Coren (2008). “Why Does My Dog Act That Way?: A Complete Guide to Your Dog's Personality”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• To rally every black sheep is my goal.

  Julian Cope

  Goal, Black, Black Sheep

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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