Sheep Quotes - Page 12

• He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

  Dorothy Eden

  Sarcastic, Crisis

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• To follow the Savior's example, each one of us must look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances and lift them up and encourage them to proceed on the journey towards eternal life.

  Ulisses Soares

  Inspiration, Journey, Example

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• The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Men, Race, Conformity

  "Building A Speech". Book by Sheldon Metcalfe, 1990.

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• Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

  William Winwood Reade

  Compassion, Oxen, Looks

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer.

  Santino Marella

  Cheer, Wrestling, People

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• Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Fall, Blessing

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Degrees, Lions

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Government, Sooner Or Later

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• In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

  Saint Augustine

  Miracle, Catholic, Church

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• [On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

  Kate Clinton

  Science, Needs, Cloning

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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Oxen

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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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• 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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• 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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• I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

  A.S. King

  Life, Mean, Yearbook

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• You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Patience, Years, Butchers

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

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• The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Lambs, Cows, Corn

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• This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Believe, Dark, Differences

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2009). “The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)”, p.344, Random House

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• I love the lambs, not the sheep.

  Roger Peyrefitte

  Lambs

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• Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, School, Average

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• Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Heaven, Sage

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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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• 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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• Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.

  Pope Francis

  Mistake, Welcome, Lost

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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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