Sheep Quotations | Page 2

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

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

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Neither sheep nor mavericks will ever get to the head of the class. Ignorance is forgivable, unorthodoxy is tolerated. Bad taste and expulsion are synonymous.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

I am like a sheep going to the slaughter; but I am as calm as a summer's day.

because of the increase in the number of farms where foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in Britain, and because of the presence in France of sheep from one of those farms.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

For me, the most interesting thing was that... much of our interactions with Electric Sheep took place in Second Life , avatar to avatar. The social aspects of Second Life were a very interesting part of the project for me because a lot of this took place in that world, even though it was a real-world contract between two companies.

For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer/ Both for themselves and those who call them friend?/ For so the whole round earth is every way/ Bound by gold chains

Goats are common all over Africa; but sheep are not so plentiful, nor do they show such good breeding - being generally lanky, with long fat tails.

If someone sees a sheep in the Flat Tops, if they can help our Glenwood office know about that, that helps science, too.

He is like the sheep dog in the cartoons, ... Guarding the goats is his job and that is all he cares about. He doesn't want to lick you on the hand; he just wants to be left alone to do his job.

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation." ()

He saw dad give more to the community than to his only son, and Randall struggled with that. Randall felt like a black sheep from age 13.

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

He walked where few others were brave enough to walk. He was concerned for others and totally unselfish. He had an attitude of gratitude and a gift of encouragement. His role as peacemaker was what set him apart. Some of you may wonder why I call him pastor instead of reverend. Well, pastor is the Latin word for shepherd. He was the good pastor ? he knew his sheep, and the sheep knew him.

He left Michigan when he was 17 years old. He worked on a sheep ranch in Wyoming for a while before moving on.

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here.

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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.

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

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

You can buy everything from hats and gloves made out of camel wool, sheep felted mats, new products such as tea cozies to felt juggling balls... so it brings a lot of money into the local communities and gives people money to send their kids to school

Wisconsin's big event for sheep producers and fiber enthusiasts is off and growing again, ... The Festival is the fastest growing event of its kind in the Midwest.

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock

We exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

We are no longer the black sheep on this issue. Europe is united on this. It shares the values that we have defended.

But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

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.

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

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.

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.

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.

We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

Sheep with a nasty side.

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.

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.'

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

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

This will eliminate the need for the tent and free up more space in the hog and sheep barns.

The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep

Every sheep is hung by his own leg.

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together

Is it safe? I don't know, maybe it is. Is it pure? Who knows what's going on in the body ? is it doing anything? All we know is if you're a sheep it can be very bad for you. Would you take something based on that?

It would be wise to have the kids go to the sheep camp and get their food instead of being dependent and going straight to the refrigerator. The hard life brings physical and mental stability, while being dependent makes you weak and vulnerable to sickness.

The sheep were interesting. They were the easiest thing. They just naturally herd, and they are naturally stupid.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.

A stranger does not skin a sheep that is paid as a fine at a chief's court. - Cape Coast, Ghana

A stranger does not skin a sheep that is paid as a fine at a chief's court. - Cape Coast, Ghana

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

It's a good year for moving sheep into barns for lambing. Remember to keep the sheep in clean, dry pens, free from drafts. There needs to be good ventilation to avoid pneumonia. We've just been spoiled in recent years by fairly easy winters.

It's to look after him. The little face of the lamb looks quite old; it's quite a worried and touching face. The things I couldn't get into David's face I put into the sheep's face. It's complementary; it goes well with him and looks after him. David has the good-looking face of a healthy young man. The sheep complemented it.

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

The next day they noticed that there was a blanket in the sheep barn and some sticks. A candle was found yesterday afternoon on top of a heater in the barn.

The New York Giants are still playing a home game. Now, everybody can pull sheep skin over their eyes and act like it's not a home game for the Giants. That's cool. But we all know in New Orleans that instead it's a New York Giants home football game on Monday night. If people want to dress it up that way and make us feel like we are at home ...

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep

It'll be safer to go through (Nielson Road) versus the other ways. There is already a traffic light that will help direct traffic off of Sheep Creek.

It's never an easy call to kill a sheep like that, ... but in this current situation, that's been one of the needs, to get fresh samples.

The kids have to hold on to the wool and tighten their knees around the sheep and ride it as long as they can. They are only judged on six seconds of riding, but they can go to the end of the arena if they want.

I'm glad that we have the ESA, because I think that's been good for the big-horned sheep and the grizzly bear, and just bringing all of us to an understanding and a desire to live with animals around us rather than slaughtering them all,