Sheep Quotes - Page 16

• Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

  Seneca the Younger

  Tree, Lightning, Wrecks

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• A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.

  Jerry Doyle

  Change, People, Trying

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• The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

  Madame Roland

  Weakness, Ass, Howl

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• Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Hunting, Skeletons

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• It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

  John Ray

  Advice, Foolish, Counselor

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• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

  Margo Kaufman

  Dad, Father, Hate

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• The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

  Ice Cube

  Darkness, Devil, Looks

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• To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

  George Herbert

  Feet, Four, Five

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.370

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• A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Pigs, Almighty

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• Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

  Lewis Carroll

  Knitting, Land, Littles

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?

  C. I. Scofield

  Christian, Running, Sacrifice

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Want, Littles, Existentialism

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  White, Legs, Littles

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• If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fighting, Men, Survival

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
  [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

  Pope Pius II

  Past, Wool, Pastures

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• A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Kingdoms, Ruins

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

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• A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Lying, Heart

  Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “The Mackintosh Treasury - Miscellaneous Writings - Volume V: The Church – The Body of Christ”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

  William Blake

  Lambs, Littles, Made

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Lamb'

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• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

  John Milton

  Morning, Silly, Busy

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 8

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• Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

  Esther Meynell

  Silly, Animal, Lambs

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  PJ Harvey

  Father, Men, Stones

  "PJ Harvey’s British Invasion". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2011.

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• What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?

  John Sentamu

  Christian, Sex, People

  "John Sentamu and the Church of England's slow retreat on gay marriage" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

  Joseph Mawle

  Jesus, Thinking, Smell

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