Pastoral Resources

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

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

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

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him.

Baseball regards us as 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.

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

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

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.

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

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

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.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.