“Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.” MayChildrenTwoRunningHouseStrongTenBuiltStonesFairySheepBricksCherriesPoniesGranite Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.” KindChildrenHardBoysAggressiveCowsSheep Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.” PeopleWorldBelieveKindChildrenTwoReasonChoicesFatherPoorBreakNeededLetting GoDesperateSheepChild Of GodNeeded Love Book:Far North Source: Far North
“The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.” HumansChildrenCharacterIndividualSpaceGraceTendenciesFormulasMediocritySheepOblivionHatefulSystematicHuman SocietyStumpsPopular Education Author:N. C. Wyeth