sheep Quotes

I’m a sheep wearing wolves’ clothing in a pack of wolves.

“The sheep were not insured. –All the savings of a frugal life had been dispersed at a blow: his hopes of being an independent farmer were laid low—possibly for ever.”

“The shepherd is slave to the sheep. A gardener is in thrall to his carrots.”

“Black Sheep, Black Sheep what do you see?”

Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. From sheep and horses to wild otters and foxes, Spider loves them all, even the crows must scare away the newly sown wheat.

“The sheep looked very happy just sitting in the grass. No, that was no good either. The grass was much to...tickly!”

“The following week, Nasreddine sheared wool from the sheep, who had been suffering from the heat ever since Spring had come. The sheep wiggled to avoid the burn of the razor, but the boy wS careful no to hurt their soft pink skin.”

“He packed a shawl his wife wove on a loom from yarn spun at the spinning wheel from sheep sheared in April.”

“and in April they sheared the sheep, spun yarn and wove and knitted”

“For a little while, they all went along happily but then…The goat kicked. The calf trampled. The chickens flapped. The sheep bleated.”

″ ‘Have you a place for me?’ said the sheep. ‘Yes, but don’t keep bleating.’ ”

“Then Mr. Grumpy and the goat and the calf and the chickens and the sheep and the pig and the dog and the cat and the rabbit and the children all swam to the bank and climbed out to dry in the hot sun.”

“Pelle shears the lamb, and the wool is carded, spun, dyed and woven. Finally, the tailor makes a new suit for Pelle.”

“Seven spindles of hemp! I have a daughter so crazy about work that she’d even spin the wool on the sheep’s back!”