Top 1200 Black Sheep Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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.
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
I'm like the black sheep of my family. — © Juan Pablo Di Pace
I'm like the black sheep of my family.
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one. I’m the responsible one. Ian’s the wild, hedonistic one.” “What’s hedonistic?” asked Kendall. Her father considered. “It means you run up a lot of credit card bills you can’t pay, change jobs a lot, and have a lot of…lady friends.
I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.
I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.
Mary had a little sheep, With the sheep she went to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, And Mary had a little lamb.
I'm the black sheep of the family.
[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep. — © Kate Clinton
[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.
In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.
To rally every black sheep is my goal.
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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.'
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
I'm the black sheep.
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
I have always been the black sheep of the family. I am the middle child, with an older and a younger sister.
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.
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn't work when I was seven, people did not laugh.
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
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.
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. — © Elizabeth Gilbert
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.
If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.
Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"
Every institution, including the judiciary has its share of black sheep and corrupt judges.
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. — © Alison Moyet
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.
Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.
I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.
I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.
A black sheep is a biting beast.
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
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