Sheep Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

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.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

I'm not a sheep.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.