Quotes About Sheep

John Wild, however, suggested that a Roman breeding programme produced a sheep more akin to the Orkney sheep of South Ronaldsay that produced a thicker fleece,

Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.

Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. PSALM 100:3

We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

So they herd sheep with wolves in Buck these days

There was a typhoon the day you were born... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a particularly tempestuous fate. You always believe you are right, and this makes you do things you shouldn't... You're a Dragon, and of all the signs only a Dragon can tame the fates. Only a Dragon can wear all the horns of destiny, duty, and power. Your sister is merely a Sheep...

I don't suppose you could have picked some more public way to self-destruct? Attempted to assassinate the Emperor with your pocketknife during the Birthday Review, say, or raped a sheep in the Great Square during rush hour?

The shepherd drives the wolf19 from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially if the sheep was a black one.

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.

eÄŸer bir adam?n topluma kar?? gelecek yeteneÄŸi ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalaman?n üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha deÄŸerli bir hale dönüÅŸtürürsünüz, kazand?r?rs?n?z. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmay? yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kal?r.

There was a long, ugly pause. Uglier than the child of a man and a sheep, as the hillmen have it.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian.

He was accustomed to sheep, but had never happened to meet them in a wood before, and disliked it. He retired, slowly at first, then fast; and the flock, in a dense mass, pressed after him. His terror increased. He turned and screamed at their long white faces; and still they came on, all stuck together, like some horrible jell—

He'd not always be just a shepherd. Someday he'd go to Sembia's docks and meet with adventure, Brann promised himself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not for the first time. He sighed at that thought, shook his head with a wry smile, and glanced about at the sheep again.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Revenons à nos moutons [Let us return to our sheep (i.e., subject)].