Lambs famous quotes

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Lips #Wipe #Lambs

Lamb is such a beautiful thing.
-- Action Bronson

#Beautiful #Lambs #Beautiful Things

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.
-- Amarillo Slim

#Lambs #Sometimes #Butchers

Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Lambs #Morality #Judgment

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
-- Arthur Baer

#Past #Lefties #Lambs

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.
-- C. J. Mahaney

#Hatred #Depth #Lambs

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar

#Lambs #Slaughter #Ready

The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Valleys #World #Lambs

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
-- Charles Farrar Browne

#Wife #Sauce #Lambs

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Mother #Mountain #Lambs

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
-- Crystal Eastman

#Lying #Together #Lambs

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Lying #Lambs #Lions

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
-- David Foster Wallace

#Light #Erratic #Lambs

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Law #Lambs #Used

One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.
-- Edward Thomson

#Heart #Hands #Lambs

Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.
-- Ehud Barak

#Lambs

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
-- Elihu Root

#Lambs #Streams

I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
-- Evelyn Lauder

#Believe #Two #Lambs

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
-- George Chapman

#Lambs #Lions #Englishmen

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.
-- Giorgos Seferis

#Lambs #Lions #Made

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.
-- Hannah Kent

#Lonely #Ravens #Lambs

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.
-- Helene Cixous

#Lambs #Feels

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
-- Isaiah Berlin

#Liberty #Lambs

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.
-- J. Sidlow Baxter

#Lambs #Harsh

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
-- Jacob Epstein

#Dog #Sheep #Lambs

I was driving by, doing a security check... and I smelled leg of lamb." Morelli
-- Janet Evanovich

#Lambs #Legs #Driving

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
-- Janet Flanner

#Mother #Acceptance #Lambs

My fondest memories are of watching lambs being delivered.
-- Jessica Raine

#Memories #Lambs

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
-- Joan Collins

#Sexy #Lines #Lambs

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?
-- Joan Crawford

#Done #Lambs #Ovens

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
-- John the Baptist

#World #Lambs #Sin

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
-- Johnny Giles

#Player #Creative #Lambs

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
-- Jonathan Demme

#Silence #Lambs #Made

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?
-- Julia Child

#Food #Kitchen #Lambs

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.
-- Juliet Stevenson

#Men #Interesting #Lambs

A lamb in a city of wolves.
-- Karen Marie Moning

#Cities #Lambs

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Wind #Lambs #Temper

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
-- Leo Tolstoy

#Doe #Lambs #Cry

March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Twilight #Winter #Lambs

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
-- Martin Luther

#Lying #Lambs #Want

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.
-- Mary McCarthy

#Guilt #Yoke #Lambs

Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.
-- Matthew Scully

#Pigs #Lambs #Littles

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
-- Maureen Johnson

#Glasses #Lambs #Lions

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
-- Mel Brooks

#One Day #Rabbits #Lambs

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.
-- Monica Drake

#Jesus #Lambs #Lasts

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
-- Natasha Bedingfield

#Fall #America #Lambs

...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Animal #Humanity #Lambs

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
-- Nicholas Breton

#Lambs #Bed #Larks

I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.
-- Nicholas Hoult

#Cute #Thinking #Lambs

The Eucharist began at Bethlehem in Mary's arms. It was she who brought to humanity the Bread for which it was famishing, and which alone can nourish it. She it was who took care of that Bread for us. It was she who nourished the Lamb whose life-giving Flesh we feed upon
-- Peter Julian Eymard

#Giving #Humanity #Lambs

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.
-- Peter Watts

#Lions #Lambs #Mourn

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
-- Samuel Gompers

#Morning #Believe #Lambs

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Lambs #Lions

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Knowing #Lambs #Labels

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
-- Thomas Harris

#Sleep #Silence #Lambs

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
-- Thomas Ken

#Morning #Law #Lambs

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.
-- Vishal Mangalwadi

#Lambs #Care #Groups

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.
-- Wendy Cope

#Thinking #Mad #Lambs

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
-- William Blake

#Sheep #Lambs #Littles

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen

#Sleep #Lions #Lambs

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
-- Howard W. Koch

#Sheep #Guilt #Lambs

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.
-- Jonathan Jackson

#Silence #Lambs #Frightening

If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
-- Steven J Lawson

#Lambs #Lions #Faces

Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.
-- Zach Anner

#People #Silence #Lambs

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.
-- Monica Drake

#Jesus #Lambs #Lasts

I love the lambs, not the sheep.
-- Roger Peyrefitte

#Sheep #Lambs

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
-- James Hogg

#Animal #Men #Lambs

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.
-- James Montgomery

#Eye #Sacrifice #Lambs