Sheep Quotes · Page 8

To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

— George Herbert

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

— Alastair Cook

Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

— Melina Marchetta

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

— Clovis Chappell

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

— George R. R. Martin

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.

— Bing Crosby

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

— Robert Herrick

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

— Tommy Emmanuel

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

— Georgia King

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It's why the whole world is falling apart.

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Robert Plant

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do…

— Mitch McConnell

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all…

— Julia Quinn

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can…

— Hunter S. Thompson

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that…

— Grayson Perry

Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a…

— Rajneesh

“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you…

— Robin McKinley

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone.…

— Agatha of Sicily

It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was…

— Caitlin Moran

“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The…

— Tom Robbins

Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that…

— Richard Dawkins

In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a…

— Mike Harding

Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great…

— Lady Gregory

Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no…

— James Williams

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and…

— Henry Paulson

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

— Haruki Murakami

“So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.”

— H.G. Wells

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

— Andre Rieu

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

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

— Alexander Pope

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.”

— Magnus Nwagu Amudi

“Behind him, the sheep, left to their own devices, decide to wander through the open gate into the field beyond.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”

— Suzy Kassem

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

— Sharon Horgan

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

— Steve Zahn