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Quotes About Sheep

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.
~ Johnny Kelly
We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.
~ Karen Maitland
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.
~ Karen Marie Moning
In the great pasture of life there are really only four kinds of creatures: sheep, as Dani likes to call them; shepherds who try to guide the sheep and keep them on the straight and narrow; sheepdogs who run them from field to field, prevent them from straying, and fight off the predators that come to slaughter and feast; and wolves, savage, fierce, and a law unto their own.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Lord Courtenay: 2 peacocks; 3 sheep, 5 geese; 2 pigs; sundry pies and pastries .£4. 3.6 1 June 1475 Boots for my lord Simon...................................... 12.6
~ Kate Ellis
It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.
~ Gary Larson
David had asked Saul for split residence between Gibeah and Bethlehem. He would be gone to shear sheep in the summer months, and during lambing, as well as harvest, when all other hands were needed in the fields. Also, many of his older brothers would be conscripted in the military. Michal already dreaded David's absence and he had not even moved in yet.
~ Brian Godawa
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
~ Brian P. Cleary
stopped raining and I came to leave. Bees hummed around the poet's hives. His apricots were ripening the colour of a pale sun. Clouds of thistledown drifted across the view and in a field there were some fleecy white sheep.
~ Bruce Chatwin
There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits of the dead, brides and unwed youths, old men worn out by labour, and tender maidens with hearts still new to sorrow.
~ Homer Odyssey
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
~ Anthony Doerr
The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.
~ Pier Luigi Loro Piana
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
~ Barry Humphries
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Never trust sheep.
~ Ryan Stiles
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.)
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
I'm originally from Hobbs, New Mexico but moved around a lot growing up. My family had a ranch 40 miles from town where they raised cattle and sheep. Shortly after I was born they sold the ranch and my father went to work in the oilfields.
~ Ryan Bingham
In 1814 the breeders founded an organization, the title of which was—deep breath—"The Association of Friends, Experts and Supporters of Sheep Breeding for the achievement of a more rapid and more thoroughgoing advancement of this branch of the economy and the manufacturing and commercial aspects of the wool industry that is based upon it." Those who didn't want to lose too much oxygen uttering the full name simply called it the Sheep Breeders' Society.
~ Carl Zimmer
Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wer sich einer Herde angehörig zugehörig fühlt, hat etwas von einem Hammel.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon