I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
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.
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a 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.
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed 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.
My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.
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.
Never trust sheep.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
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 grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.