216 Quotes About Sheep



  • Author Henri La Fontaine
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    Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

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  • Author Pope Francis
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    Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

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  • Author Khalil Gibran
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    Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

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  • Author Robert Grosseteste
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    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.

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  • Author Terry Goodkind
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    It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

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  • Author Vincent Gallo
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    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.

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  • Author Eric Hoffer
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    Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

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