Sheep Quotes - Page 8

• Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Aesop

  Educational, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

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• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

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• And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Army, Men, Eight

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• Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

  Vance Havner

  Lord, Disciple, Invited

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• Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Body, Cows, Morrow

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

  Homer

  Men, Blood, Band

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.355, Macmillan

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• To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

  Dave Barry

  Europe, Looks, Like You

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.111, Ballantine Books

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• I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Block, Yards, Sculpture

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Light

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Sometimes, Consideration

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Ravens, Sick

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• It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Goats, Arjuna, Swallowing

  "Ranatunga rebuts Warne jibe". news.bbc.co.uk. February 21, 2004.

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• The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Teaching, Taken

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Dirty, White

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• My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

  Brian Sandoval

  Jobs, Firsts, Cleaning

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

  Augustus William Hare

  White, Poetry, Body

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.243

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• I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Losing Control, Losing Everything

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• perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Home, Men, Rights

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• Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, Sky, Looks

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• The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

  George Herbert

  Safety

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dog, Real, Passion

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Children, Cat

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

  Julia Quinn

  Home, Three, Herds

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• The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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