Sheep Quotations

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

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

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.

I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles.

We have Beast, our Hungarian sheep dog. And he is so talented. He's so smart. He knows his daily schedule. He has an extracurricular activity. He goes herding. He herds sheep. And we've been told that he's quite gifted.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

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.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

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

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

Neither sheep nor mavericks will ever get to the head of the class. Ignorance is forgivable, unorthodoxy is tolerated. Bad taste and expulsion are synonymous.

I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

He left Michigan when he was 17 years old. He worked on a sheep ranch in Wyoming for a while before moving on.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Goats are common all over Africa; but sheep are not so plentiful, nor do they show such good breeding - being generally lanky, with long fat tails.

For me, the most interesting thing was that... much of our interactions with Electric Sheep took place in Second Life , avatar to avatar. The social aspects of Second Life were a very interesting part of the project for me because a lot of this took place in that world, even though it was a real-world contract between two companies.

For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer/ Both for themselves and those who call them friend?/ For so the whole round earth is every way/ Bound by gold chains

because of the increase in the number of farms where foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in Britain, and because of the presence in France of sheep from one of those farms.

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

He walked where few others were brave enough to walk. He was concerned for others and totally unselfish. He had an attitude of gratitude and a gift of encouragement. His role as peacemaker was what set him apart. Some of you may wonder why I call him pastor instead of reverend. Well, pastor is the Latin word for shepherd. He was the good pastor ? he knew his sheep, and the sheep knew him.

I am like a sheep going to the slaughter; but I am as calm as a summer's day.

If someone sees a sheep in the Flat Tops, if they can help our Glenwood office know about that, that helps science, too.

He saw dad give more to the community than to his only son, and Randall struggled with that. Randall felt like a black sheep from age 13.

There is a huge ethnic market. The increase in the ethnic market for goats has been due to the increase of immigrants coming from places where goat meat was the primary meat staple. The other primary meat staple from most of these areas was sheep. So the ethnic demand has increased there, too. There's more growth (in sheep) because the sheep industry started out smaller (than goats) so it's been a more rapid growth, a kind of a catch up situation." ()

He is like the sheep dog in the cartoons, ... Guarding the goats is his job and that is all he cares about. He doesn't want to lick you on the hand; he just wants to be left alone to do his job.

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Wisconsin's big event for sheep producers and fiber enthusiasts is off and growing again, ... The Festival is the fastest growing event of its kind in the Midwest.

You can buy everything from hats and gloves made out of camel wool, sheep felted mats, new products such as tea cozies to felt juggling balls... so it brings a lot of money into the local communities and gives people money to send their kids to school