A Quote by Mike McDermott

You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

Mike McDermott

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Mike McDermott
Politician
Born: November 22, 1961

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

Amarillo Slim

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Tiberius

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Robert Herrick

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Robert Plant

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

Tiberius

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

Margo Kaufman

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.

Ralph Northam

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

Martin Luther

If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

Donald McCaig

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.

Princess Aurora

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to treat a fox that had been brought in with a shooting injury. The answer from a vet who had worked there for many years was, Not once. When I asked him why, he said,You can take it from me that when the fox is shot in the countryside by somebody trained, it is dead.

Ian Cawsey

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

Hayao Miyazaki

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