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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.
— Bill Bryson
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
— Facundo Pieres
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
— George Herbert
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretendthat all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton
Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!
— Dougie Poynter
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.
— Sharon Horgan
I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.
— George Nethercutt
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
— Thomas Love Peacock
People or starsRegard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
— Laurence J. Peter
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
— George Washington
You should never trust a wolf in sheep's clothing. Because the only thing the wolf will ever want to do is break you.
— Rachel E. Carter
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
— Henri La Fontaine
Lions care not for the opinions of sheep.
— George R R Martin
Elections; when the sheep get to decide which wolf will eat them - rjs
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.
— Frederick Schiller Faust
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
— William A. Drake
The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep.
— Hazel Butler
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
— Austin O'Malley
There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
— Benjamin Franklin
An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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. — Steven Tyler
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.
— Edna Ferber
Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
— Haruki Murakami
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.] — Pope Pius II
Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home His wandering sheep!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep.
— Karen Marie Moning
Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. — William Shakespeare
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope
Respect the sheep.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
— Ezra Pound
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? — William Shakespeare
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
— Robert Greene
We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.
— Karen Maitland
When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.
— Demetri Martin
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.
— George Carlin
Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series)
— Christopher Paolini
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
— Asif Kapadia
good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep
— Anne Lamott
In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.
— Nathanael West
Most of my life is in the past.There goes some more of it.
I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney
I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.
— Magenta Periwinkle
The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd.
— Haruki Murakami
There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.
— Esther Meynell
Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.
— Alan Moore
The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.
— Leonie Swann
Let the sheep bleat. Their own noises soothe them.
— Leah Raeder
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
— John Harvey Kellogg
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
— Vance Havner
Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
— Michel Faber
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
— Sue Grafton
Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
If the universe has an end, it means we are captive fishes in an aquarium! If it has no end, we are lost sheep in the eternal darkness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The light of morning decomposes everything.
— Haruki Murakami
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
— Winston Churchill
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep.
— Yuval Noah Harari
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
— Matthew Quick
Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?
— Donna Tartt
To create a kind of balance between a butcher and a sheep, you either take the knife from the butcher or teach the sheep how to use a knife!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
One lost sheep among a thousandbreaks the shepherd's heart;
one lost soul among a thousand
breaks God's heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.
— Dionne Warwick
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
— George Herbert
