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Quotes About Black sheep

I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
~ Lou Gramm
I'm the black sheep of the family.
~ Frank Shamrock
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
~ Matthew Quick
Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a daring, cynical, tough social outcast who in some ways reminded her of the boys she'd known on the Chicago streets.
~ Judith McNaught
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
~ Sonny Bono
I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.
~ Will Poulter
I'm the family oddball, you see. Not a black sheep, I haven't done anything dreadful. They just don't know what to do with me, exactly.
~ Emma Bull
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
~ Andre Rieu
The Black Sheep. The herd shuns the black sheep, uncertain whether or not it belongs with them. So it straggles behind, or wanders away from the herd, where it is cornered by wolves and promptly devoured. Stay with the herd—there is safety in numbers. Keep your differences in your thoughts and not in your fleece.
~ Robert Greene
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
~ Dion Fortune
No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.
~ Chloe Kohanski
I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
~ Bradley Walsh
Halpin was pretty generally deprecated as an intellectual black sheep who was likely at any moment to disgrace the flock by bleating in metre. The Tennessee Fraysers were a practical folk - not practical in the popular sense of devotion to sordid pursuits, but having a robust contempt for any qualities unfitting a man for the wholesome vocation of politics.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Baa, baa, black sheep,Have you any wool?Yes, sir, yes, sir,Three bags full:One for my master,And one for my dame,And one for the little boyWho lives down the lane.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
I worked for Mack Altizer, who ran Bad Company Rodeo, in Del Rio. Those guys, even though they were cowboys, were all hippies. We were always the black sheep of the rodeo world. From there I went on to Paris, France, where I worked in this Wild West show.
~ Ryan Bingham
Every family has its black sheep — in ours it was Uncle Petros.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,Baa! Baa! Baa!We're little black sheep who've gone astray,Baa—aa—aa!Gentlemen rankers out on the spree,Damned from here to Eternity,God ha' mercy on such as we,Baa! Yah! Baa!
~ Rudyard Kipling
A black sheep in the family, no doubt
~ John Wayne
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
~ Larry Bishop
Nzinga then launched into the racial implications of stepping on a black doormat rather than over it, of not wearing black socks (why would you step on your own people?), and don't ever use black garbage bags, she instructed, as for blackmail, blackball, black mood, black magic, black sheep, black-hearted, I never wear black underpants, for example, why crap on myself? I'm surprised you all don't know this already
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
~ Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
Als een familie er niet in slaagt haar zwarte schaap te vernietigen, dan kleineert ze het met moederlijke toegeeflijkheid.
~ Milan Kundera