Quotes and Sayings About Sheep
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But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.
-- A. A. Milne -
We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
-- Abba Kovner -
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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow...
-- Aesop Rock -
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
-- Agatha Christie -
Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.
-- Agatha of Sicily -
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ***** and all the passiveness of the sheep.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
-- Alexander Pope -
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.
-- Alfred Bester -
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
-- Alice Meynell -
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
-- Alison Moyet -
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
-- Amarillo Slim -
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
-- Andre Rieu -
That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?
-- Andrew Flintoff -
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
-- Andrew Vachss -
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
-- Ann Wilson -
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
-- Anne Lamott -
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
-- Anne Lamott -
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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 -
If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.
-- Arjuna Ranatunga
