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Quotes About Sheep

His propitiating work is meant to gather people from the "whole world." "I have other sheep that are not of this fold!" (John 10:16)—all over the world.
~ Christian Focus Publications
Their close grazing, in concert with that of sheep, reduced the short sward to a thin crust of roots over sand. Where the grazing was worst, sand blew into drifts and moved across the land.
~ Helen Macdonald
The sea looked as if it had been licked clean, blue and clear and smooth, and there were a few woolly little clouds in the sky. Legend said that these clouds were sheep who had simply wandered over the cliff tops one day, special sheep who now went on grazing in the sky and were never shorn. In any case, they were a good sign.
~ Leonie Swann
Glaubst du, es gibt mehr Wölfe?" Mehrwölfe? Die Schafe guckten erschrocken. Ein Werwolf war schlimm genug. Keines von ihnen wollte je einem Mehrwolf begegnen.
~ Leonie Swann
Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.
~ Leonie Swann
Justice!" bleated Othello. "Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.
~ Leonie Swann
Cloud war das wolligste Schaf der Herde, und sie füllte sich überall wohl. Wollig und wohlig hingen zusammen.
~ Leonie Swann
Then it seemed that a cloud formed itself into an enormous bumble bee as big as a sheep. She wore a tall iron crown studded with rock crystals, the stars of the underworld. All this may have been a collective hallucination although nobody has yet explained to me what a collective hallucination actually means.
~ Leonora Carrington
At twilight the earth was darker than the sky, and it was difficult to see if any of Romero's sheep or goats were grazing along the edge of the pavement. The tourist traffic on Highway 66 was gone now, and Tayo imagined white people eating their mashed potatoes and gravy in some steamy Grants café.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
~ Antony Beevor
The devious manipulation of sheep, otherwise known as politics.
~ Unknown
How was New Zealand?' 'Green and full of sheep
~ Jasper Fforde
The biblical picture of intimacy and love between the shepherd and the sheep is foreign to us. The oriental shepherd lived with his sheep. He slept with them out on the hillsides at night, as David must have done. He went out seeking the hundredth sheep, not satisfied with only ninety-nine in the fold.
~ Jay E. Adams
Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.
~ Max McKeown
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.
~ Robert Grosseteste
Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
~ Tori Amos
I'm awake," Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. "I'm just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they all smelled like melons. That part was kind of weird.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'm awake," Clay muttered. He buried his head under his talons. "I'm just waiting until Glory and Tsunami stop fighting. I was dreaming about sheep and buffalo and bears. They were all on the table in front of me and I had to decide which to eat first. Oh, and they
~ Tui T. Sutherland
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
And all this was before the bus hit the sheep.
~ Dave Eggers
Beldin sighed. Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a group of sheephenders below the snow line. Shepherds, uncle, she corrected. It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word, Shepherd sounds nicer. Nicer. He snorted. Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse. Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate.
~ David Eddings
Cabinet Minister: "The trouble with the Germans is that they are like a lot of sheep; they will follow anybody."] Oh, it is far worse than that, they are carnivorous sheep!
~ Winston S. Churchill
Bergman invited me to his island a few times but I always ducked it. I worshipped the guy as an artist, but who wants to take a tiny plane to a Russian-owned island where there's just sheep and get yogurt for lunch? I'm not that dedicated.
~ Woody Allen