Lambs Quotes - Page 3

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

Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

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

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.

If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

...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.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

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!

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

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

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

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.

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

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

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

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.