Sheep Quotes

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

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

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

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

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

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.

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

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

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

I'm the black sheep.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

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.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

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.

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

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

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

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

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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.

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

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

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.