Quotes About Sheep

Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.

Never trust sheep.

But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.

they lurk passively, like vampire sheep

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.

The lion-sheep splice was commissioned by the Lion Isaiahists in order to force the advent of the Peaceable Kingdom. They'd reasoned that the only way to fulfil the lion/lamb friendship prophecy without the first eating the second would be to meld the two of them together.

didn't plan to spend this amount of time these past weeks," Lynne said. "But I have learned a lot. I know my sheep and they know me, but this was a different kind of knowing. Because of what we've been through, there's a greater trust between Piaget and me than with the other sheep.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture. The butcher comes and fetches one today, another tomorrow. The rest feed on and take no notice of what is become of their lost companions. 'Tis as if a company of condemned persons (reprieved for a time) should be appointed to be executed one after another...

Scotland, say, and in Montana?" I did not. "Well," he proceeded, "over in Scotland when a feller sees a sheepman coming down the road with his sheep, he says: 'Behold the gentle shepherd with his fleecy flock!' That's poetry. Now in Montana, that same feller says, when he sees the same feller coming over a ridge with the same sheep: 'Look at that crazy blankety-blank with his woolies!' That's fact. You mind what I say, or you'll get spurred.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

In like manner, the word "know" is frequently used in the New Testament, in the same sense as in the Old Testament. "Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you" (Mat 7:23). "I am the good shepherd and know My sheep and am known of Mine" (Joh 10:14). "If any man love God, the same is known of him" (1Co 8:3). "The Lord knoweth them that are His" (2Ti 2:19).

There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or deed destroys itself. It becomes a flock of sheep that will get their throats cut by the first person to come along. The same thing happens to men.

Reunión de pastores, decía el antiguo refrán español, oveja muerta.

Since he will be following it through a jungle, however, he should bear in mind the supremely practical guidance provided nearly two thousand years ago: "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Jesus repeated the question: "Simon son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Lord," Peter said, "you know I love you." "Then take care of my sheep," Jesus said. —John 21:16

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.

This noble example to his sheep he [the Parson] gave | that first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

And what a shame it is, if a Priest took not prudent care, to witness a shitty shepherd shepherding unsullied sheep.

Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back.

As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.